Healthcare IT Update

Do you have a security compliance plan? Take these 5 steps first.

Hospitals are understandably spending much time and money these days trying to prepare or go live with an electronic medical records system, but don’t forget that interconnected health records bring a new threat to data security.

If you don’t want your facility in tomorrow’s headlines, make sure you have an information security process in place that will guide you if and when you experience data breaches.

“In the future, with interconnected health records, when you can go into hospital and they can call up your records from across country, what if a chunk of it is fraudulent?” asked Jim Sheldon-Dean, director of compliance services with Lewis Creek Systems LLC, in a recent audio conference. “The importance of getting this right cannot be overstated.” The possible…