Why Working With HITRUST-Certified Vendors Should be Your Priority
Working with HITRUST Certified vendors is quickly becoming integral to healthcare systems’ cybersecurity and patient data protection efforts. The growing demand for sensitive patient medical information on the black market presents mitigating circumstances for healthcare professionals. In fact, 7.9 billion records were breached in 2019 by only September and there is a 76% chance of five million more patient records expected to be breached by mid-2021. Stolen healthcare data is highly sought after and valuable because it is not perishable. When credit card numbers are stolen, those numbers can be easily changed to halt the breach. This is not the case with valuable personal medical data, which includes names, birthdates, Social Security numbers as well as other personal and medical information. It is not likely that the demand for stolen healthcare data on the black market is going to slow down. Unfortunately, healthcare organizations have no reliable experience providing any type