Healthcare IT News March 13, 2020
Cybersecurity firm CynergisTek is using AI to help hospitals detect unauthorized access to electronic health records and prevent breaches caused by coronavirus curiosity.
With hospitals and health systems girding for battle with a surge of COVID-19 cases, they also need to continue their fight to maintain strong cybersecurity and protect patient privacy.
This is especially true given the fact that some healthcare workers may be more apt than usual these days to try to ascertain patients’ coronavirus status by improperly accessing their electronic health records.
WHY IT MATTERS
Recognizing this, CynergisTek on Friday announced that it has updated its Patient Privacy Monitoring Services to help providers be more proactive in identifying hospital insiders seeking information they’re unauthorized to access about...