Any reference to the year 2020 will have the mention of COVID-19 pandemic. While few clinicians moved into new or modified roles, Gig Economy Healthcare workers saw some of the greatest needs. Nurses, Physicans etc were moonlighting in multiple healthcare facilities. As a result, healthcare facilities faced risks such as unmanaged devices, shadow IT and insecure access, along with human risks like increased phishing attempts.
US based healthcare organizations face EHI privacy and security concerns that can leave them facing HIPAA violation penalties. Under the HIPAA Privacy rule, healthcare organizations need to:
- Make reasonable efforts to use, disclose, and request the minimum amount of PHI necessary to accomplish the intended purpose of the use, disclosure, or request.
- Develop and implement policies and procedures to limit internal workforce member access to PHI based on roles and groups
- Determine reasonableness of covered entity requests to ensure they align with the HIPAA Privacy Rule
To ensure patient’s information stay protected, identity and access management (IAM) solutions remain a must-have for healthcare organizations. Single-Sign-On is the first step does not help protect PHI once someone is inside the organization’s systems. To protect electronic health records, healthcare organizations must adopt leading HIPAA-compliant healthcare data security practices that focus on ‘who’ and ‘what’ has access to PHI data. Whether that access is appropriate within the ‘limited privilege’ standard. Maintaining compliance with the HITRUST, HIPAA requires healthcare organization to undertake User Access Reviews. Continuous reviews also prevent unauthorized access to Protected Health Information (PHI). SecurEnds easy to implement and feature balanced software allows organizations to proactively monitor and audit access across connected or disconnected health information systems both on-premise or cloud. Our industry first Identity Mindmap gives easy visibility into fine-grained entitlements (roles, credentials and permissions) across interoperable healthcare systems.
