IT GRC Forum

Six Keys to Healthcare IT Security and Compliance

Recorded: 7 April 2010

Presenting: Michael Rasmussen, Corporate Integrity; Chris Meritt, Lumension

Safeguarding electronic protected health information (ePHI) has proved quite challenging for many healthcare organizations. In fact, 80 percent of responding healthcare organizations had experienced at least one incident of lost or stolen electronic health information in the past year*.

Harmonizing Controls to Reduce Your Cost of Compliance

Mounting regulations across the globe have increased the cost and burden on organizations. The high cost is especially felt by organizations which must adhere to multiple requirements - 75 percent of organizations must comply with two or more regulations and corresponding audits and more than 40 percent must comply with three or more regulations *. Audit preparation typically occurs in functional silos, with different project teams focused on addressing an individual compliance initiative, resulting in significant operational inefficiencies and higher costs to demonstrate compliance.