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Why Cyber Criminals Are Targeting Your Patients’ Health Data

Cyber criminals have paper methods for record- quickly turn into profit. However, that – and should not have – the same level of
stolen credit card infor- keeping and other tasks, a data doesn’t expire, so there is more time access to data as a physician does.
mation for years. Now, move exposing them to to sell it and more time to use it to create Healthcare organizations that don’t prop-
they are turning their eyes tremendous patient safety fake identities that can be sold to the erly segment and restrict user access are
to something more lucra- and financial risks that are highest bidder. opening themselves up to risk.
tive: your patients’ health nearly impossible to quan- With the proliferation of personalized Healthcare organizations can reduce
data. More than 170 mil- tify. healthcare technologies like smart their risk of cyber attacks by implement-
lion patient health Medical records contain watches and other types of wearable sys- ing penetration testing, where profes-
records have been multiple pieces of private tems, cyber criminals have more oppor- sional hackers create simulated hacks to
breached since 2009, information, from social tunities to steal data than ever before. As assess how well your system defends
according to Redspin’s security numbers to pre- a healthcare organization, how are you itself against an attack. In addition to
2016 Breach Report, and scriptions, making them protecting your patients’ information identifying vulnerabilities, penetration
that number keeps grow- extremely valuable to cyber and business from these attacks? testing reveals what types of information
ing. BY KEVIN N. FINE, criminals. Once stolen, There are several reasons why health- might be compromised if an attack
Health executives rank MHA, MSM criminals sell sensitive per- care organizations are especially vulnera- occurs.
cyber security – protect- sonal health information to ble to cyber attacks and data breaches. As the value of health data increases,
ing the privacy and secu- other criminals pursuing Let’s look at three of the most common: the business of cyber crime becomes
rity of consumer information – as one of identity theft, health insurance fraud, 1. Disparate and legacy IT systems more sophisticated, and regulators
their top challenges for 2018, according drug trades and other illegal activities. 2. Insufficient internal controls increase enforcement, healthcare organi-
to Healthcare Executive Group’s Top 10 The main value driver of health infor- 3. Lack of cyber security awareness zations need to become more vigilant in
survey. This shouldn’t come as a surprise mation is its longevity, according to Intel training protecting their business and patient
as major ransomware attacks on hospi- Security McAfee Labs “Health Warning” Many hospitals, health systems and data. Proper controls, technology
tals and healthcare centers continue report, which examines the business of physician practices are not only running upgrades and employee training can help
making headlines, revealing cyber crimi- cyber crime and the marketplace for multiple IT systems with sensitive data organizations to guard against threats,
nals’ growing appetite for patient health stolen health data. (including an EHR, practice manage- identify vulnerabilities and mitigate risk.
records. Financial information may be easier ment software, etc.), they are also run- To learn more about protecting your
Hollywood Presbyterian Medical for cybercriminals to monetize, but cred- ning outdated, legacy systems. In addi- healthcare organization from cyber
Center, for example, paid a $17,000 ran- it card numbers, ATM PINs, etc., are also tion, they may not have implemented the threats, contact a firm with expertise in
som in bitcoin to a hacker who took con- easier for victims to change, which proper security features, including fire- information security and experience
trol of the hospital’s computer systems. means they have a short shelf life. Stolen walls and other technical controls, reli- serving healthcare clients.
This year, the ‘Wanna Decryptor’ mal- financial data has to be sold quickly able backups and redundancies, and two-
ware alone affected more than 20 British before its value is lost. factor authentication.
hospitals and companies, as well as 45 Health information, on the other hand, One of the key components of an inter- Kevin N. Fine, MHA, MSM, is a director
public health organizations across the contains personal identifiers such as nal controls program related to cyber of healthcare advisory services in the Miami
United Kingdom. names, addresses, Social Security num- security is restricting access to sensitive office of Kaufman Rossin, one of the Top 50
Some of these medical centers were bers and medical histories, which can be data, including protected health informa- CPA and advisory firms in the U.S. He can
forced to revert to traditional pen and more challenging for cybercriminals to tion (PHI). A receptionist does not need be reached at kfine@kaufmanrossin.com.

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