Secure Productivity for Healthcare Organizations
How healthcare organizations can enhance productivity while keeping their sensitive data secure and modernizing work
For businesses in the healthcare space, robust data security is non-negotiable. This means that when implementing new productivity tools, it needs to be done by a leading system integrator of Microsoft 365 solutions that understand the nuances and complexities of this specific industry. It’s important to choose a partner that prioritizes your data security and helps you deliver exceptional patient experiences, foster collaboration, unlock value from clinical and operational datasets, and ultimately empower your healthcare workforce. Atomic Data understands this concept thoroughly, and is conducting a webinar next month on the subject.
For businesses in the healthcare space, robust data security is non-negotiable. This means that when implementing new productivity tools, it needs to be done by a leading system integrator of Microsoft 365 solutions that understand the nuances and complexities of this specific industry. It’s important to choose a partner that prioritizes your data security and helps you deliver exceptional patient experiences, foster collaboration, unlock value from clinical and operational datasets, and ultimately empower your healthcare workforce.
Healthcare organizations today must manage and share data safely and securely
80%
of consumers rate patient privacy as very important
~33%
of healthcare organizations globally fell victim to a ransomware attack in 2020
$10.1M
The average healthcare data breach cost
In their pursuit of improving productivity, healthcare organizations today must manage and share data in a secure way. Patients care deeply about privacy and breaching their trust has significant financial and reputational consequences. Patients have increasing expectations around digital engagement, but not at the cost of privacy. In fact, they care more about privacy than ever before—with 80% rating patient privacy as very important, even more important than the cost of healthcare.
Healthcare organizations face numerous data vulnerabilities
Providers face numerous data vulnerabilities to different areas of the business through attack vectors like phishing. Sensitive data are often unclassified, unlabeled, and widely available throughout systems. Other vulnerabilities to data include maintaining confidentiality of data, as well as breaches in ransomware compromising the availability of data. Additionally, data could be prematurely deleted with improper data retention policies that may not comply with legal needs or may move around as of data residency policies, impacting compliance. Finally, third-party risks in areas such of supply chain can expose data to risk of being compromised.
Getting ahead of data security risks can unlock benefits such as reduced risk of medical errors, improved patient privacy and protection, safer operation of medical devices, higher quality of patient care, and increased confidence in adoption and security of new technology. This is key in mastering modern work.
Healthcare organizations can enable effective data security by…
- Creating a trusted platform – Ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of patient care information is trusted across tools
- Viewing and managing data from one place – Have a single unified way to see volume, type, and location of patient and customer data and health trends across the entire data estate
- Implementing key policies and control – Create compliant environments to meet HIPAA regulations, HITRUST, HITECH security rules, HDS, MARS-E, GDPR and more
- Simplifying data governance – Preserve, collect, analyze, and export all data (including clinical data) for internal or external investigations
Help safeguard data across your hybrid, multi-cloud, and multi-platform data estates
When it comes to data security, it’s all about maintaining confidentiality, integrity, and availability across the organization. It’s vital for healthcare organizations looking to get secure and improve productivity. Let’s consider what that looks like in action, and what’s possible with Microsoft 365.
Identify and protect across clouds, users, apps, and devices
Help safeguard electronic health records, administrative data, claims, patient registries, surveys, and clinical trials data with a wide range of encryption capabilities – including encryption at rest, in-transit, and in use
Manage access to confidential data
Apply policies aligned to HIPAA Privacy Rule, GDPR, ISO-IEC 27000 series to manage access and use of sensitive data across the entire ecosystem
Classify data with classifiers and labels
Label highly sensitive data across documents, data warehouses and visualization platforms
Simplify IT infrastructure
Incorporate data loss prevention (DLP) controls into systems, programs, and applications to automate enforcement of policy at scale
Create and manage DLP policies in one place
Ensure consistent sharing, transfer, and use of all data (including health and patient data) across communications and content management systems aligned to ISO/IEC 27000 series
Balance protection and productivity of data governance
Use DLP policies and user notifications to educate on data handling best practices and data ownership
Investigate risks intelligently
Enable IT admins to correlate native and third-party info tied to an alert or case to make the right decisions and stay compliant with industry and global requirements
Adjust policies and restrictions by user
Prevent employees and third-party contractors from taking actions that may compromise sensitive data
Ensure user-level privacy
Leverage access controls, policies, and audit logs to protect users and user information
Why choose a Microsoft Partner for data security
There are many data protection vendors in the industry, why is Microsoft Purview uniquely positioned to help you build a better data security strategy? Here are three reasons Microsoft 365 is the ideal:
First, it’s easy to get started and does not require you to go deploy agents. For example, with Information Protection you don’t need to train your classifiers – and can leverage auto-classification capabilities. With Insider Risk, you can run an Analytics report to identify trends and risks before even implementing a policy. And with Data Loss Prevention, you can leverage audit mode in a few simple clicks! Second, Microsoft Purview products not only integrate across the platform to drive synergy, but also integrate with the most commonly-used productivity tools, such as Teams, Exchange, SharePoint, and OneDrive, so users get appropriate nudges as needed and can take actions to help protect data responsibly. Lastly, Microsoft Purview offers built-in machine learnings capabilities to help discovery sensitive data, classify data, and detect the most critical risks around the data.
Microsoft Partner help providers keep pace with evolving compliance regulations
Like many providers in the healthcare space, compliance is likely top of mind for your company. But the speed at which compliance regulations evolve can complicate efforts to implement data-rich solutions. With this, there’s an emerging opportunity for providers to not only keep up with change by elevating their own compliance measures, but to propel the entire industry toward digital transformation.
Microsoft Partners support this transformation by providing the highest level of trust, with built-in compliance with 100+ industry-specific regulations across global regions.
Microsoft’s commitment to security, privacy, and compliance is unparalleled. But it’s just one of the things that sets Microsoft Partners apart.
Compliance is a shared responsibility
- Azure and other Microsoft platforms are HITRUST certified, moving to the latest version of HITRUST CSF v11
- Shared responsibilities and inheritance: up to 80% is possible with HITRUST, depending on workload and level of HITRUST assessment
- HITRUST is mapped to over 50 other regulations – Compliance with HITRUST simplifies compliance with multiple regulations, data protection laws, privacy & security standards.
- HITRUST is used by multinational organizations to simplify compliance with multiple regulations, data protection laws, and exceeds HIPAA privacy and security standards
As compliance is a shared responsibility, Azure and other Microsoft platforms are HITRUST certified, moving to the latest version of HITRUST CSF v11. HITRUST simplifies compliance with multiple regulations and data protection laws and exceeds HIPAA privacy and security standards. Additionally, HITRUST SaaS solutions are powered on Azure, giving you greater confidence in Microsoft’s ability to deliver the threat protection that you need and expect.
Connect with a trusted partner
Looking forward, we expect to see healthcare organizations continue to leverage newly implemented technology tools into the future to increase productivity and stay secure. Companies that need to accelerate their digital transformation during this time will continue to rely on trusted partners who can support their innovation and technology adoption in the future. With the Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare and the expertise of a valued Microsoft partner, healthcare organizations can align to their clinical and operational needs, then deploy quickly to empower their digital transformation and design a healthier future.
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