HealthTech August 22, 2025
Nathan Eddy

Organizations should prioritize protecting meetings and shared data with end-to-end encryption and two-factor authentication to safeguard sensitive patient information.

For healthcare organizations, collaboration platforms have become essential to productivity and care delivery. But they also introduce new security challenges.

As the use of file sharing, messaging and collaboration tools becomes more widespread, so do concerns around data access and content retention.

Organizations now need solutions that can detect sensitive data, protect it through tokens or masking, and provide real-time visibility into how it’s shared to ensure they are maintaining HIPAA compliance. To make this possible, healthcare IT leaders are turning to multifactor authentication (MFA), role-based access control, and integration with data loss prevention and insider risk management tools.

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