HIPAA-Compliant Remote Access Software for Healthcare

Healthcare data breaches occur almost daily, and cyber attacks are coming in from all sides

Between ensuring the security and privacy of patient data that hackers want, monitoring access to patient medical records, and keeping tabs on third-party activity like telehealth services and medical technology providers, healthcare IT, information security, privacy, and compliance teams are at max capacity. Not only are they burdened with managing and monitoring access to critical data, but they’re also responsible for finding solutions to secure hospital networks that are being poked and prodded by bad actors while staying compliant and meeting HIPAA requirements.

Healthcare data is one of the highest value items on the black market, so it makes sense why hackers would want to obtain that data. It doesn’t help that security threats are everywhere, from an insider threat in the form of an employee trying to make some profit off private patient information, to an individual hacker, or a ransomware gang that found a gap in a third parties’ remote access connection. The privacy and security challenges healthcare facilities face are pervasive and need to be addressed with strong measures and controls.

Healthcare privacy and cybersecurity breaks down into a few key areas of importance:

• Protecting private patient data from being compromised or stolen.
• Monitoring access to protected health information (PHI) and electronic medical records (EMR).
• Ensuring HIPAA, HITECH and HITRUST requirements are met.
• Securing hospital networks, systems, and infrastructure from cyber threats.
• Ensuring hospital staff have the resources and access to patient data when they need it.
• Making sure healthcare facilities stay up and running with no disruptions in daily operations.

It is possible to successfully accomplish all of these tasks, but it might stretch healthcare IT, security, and compliance teams to their limit. Most of the time, the solutions to these challenges are time-consuming, manual processes that are prone to human error and take employees away from other critical responsibilities.

The Solution: Critical Access Management For Healthcare

Critical access management solutions for healthcare take the burden off healthcare IT, security, privacy, and compliance teams and automate the workflows that protect patient data, secure access, and ensure compliance. It enables these teams to address the big questions about critical access, like “What’s being accessed?”, “Who’s accessing?”, and “How’re they accessing?” in order to establish systems and processes that can best protect access to assets like EMR systems, internet-enabled devices, and hospital networks. These solutions — in addition to bringing much-needed efficiency and ease to laborious and manual processes — provide improved security to these critical assets.