Secure Email, Privacy Impact Assessments, Breach Avoidance and Reporting, Cyber Attack Insurance
Secure Email, Privacy Impact Assessments, Breach Avoidance and Reporting, Cyber Attack Insurance
Personal health information protection is critical to your clinic. Patient information is the most important resource in your healthcare practice. You can protect all of your health records from the dangers of a privacy breach with the right communication software and the support of expert-level healthcare privacy compliance consulting.
Protect your practice against the devastating effects of data breach and cyber attack when you implement all necessary security and privacy compliance measures. Brightsquid knows what you need based on your type of practice and where you are located.
Get the efficiency of email with all the security of a face to face meeting. Use secure email in your practice to block ransomware, save wasted time, strengthen relationships, and streamline care coordination.
Privacy compliance is good for business. Following compliant practices mitigates the risks posed by cyber threats and privacy breaches which must be reported. We can help with your Privacy Impact Assessment, PIPEDA compliance, and ensure you’re operating in compliance with HIPAA.
Just like the most careful drivers get in car accidents, you need to have a plan in case your clinic suffers a breach. Delegate the risk of a breach with a comprehensive cyber liability insurance policy underwritten by Lloyd’s of London, so that cyber security isn’t keeping you up at night.
One of the largest unreported crimes after ransomware attacks is email compromise. Healthcare clinic staff are 40% more likely to click on phishing emails because they’re busy and attackers target them for the value of patient records.
You can help eliminate the threat of privacy breach through email by using ransomware-blocking Brightsquid Secure-Mail instead. Secure-Mail looks and feels just like email and is purpose built for healthcare clinic operations with Shared Inbox and read Receipts and it complies with privacy regulations across North america and Europe.
Most health information data breaches in recent years have been due to mistakes or security lapses inside healthcare organizations. 25% of privacy breaches in healthcare involved employee error.
Assess the risks to the integrity of your clinic with a professional Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA). A comprehensive PIA done by expert privacy consultants identifies where in your clinic there is risk of patient data breach and determines your strategies for mitigation including clinic policies and training for all staff.
Depending on where you’re located, you may only need us to create policies and procedures compliant with the regulations in your area. Click the button below to learn more about your compliance needs.
A privacy breach in your clinic adds up to a massive expense very quickly. Under mandatory privacy breach reporting you must inform the government and any impacted patients in the event of a patient data breach in your healthcare practice. Costs of recovery from a breach include (but aren’t limited to):
• Incident Response Costs
• Legal and Regulatory Costs
• IT Security and Forensic Costs
• Crisis Communication Costs
• Privacy Breach Management Costs
• Third Party Privacy Breach Management costs
• System Damage and Rectification Costs
• System Business Interruption
• Consequential Reputational Harm
• Loss Adjustment Costs
• Privacy Liability
• Management Liability
• Regulatory Fines
• Defamation
• Court Attendance Costs
Privacy breaches happen in healthcare every day.
Statistics show your clinic has a 25% chance of suffering a cyber attack in the next 2.5 years. Since privacy breach reporting became law, the province of Alberta has received dozens of breach reports every week. Healthcare is the only industry in which breaches from the inside outnumber breaches from the outside, usually a training issue.
When your healthcare clinic follows the best practices laid out in the privacy compliance regulations, and policies and procedures established in your Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA), you build a strong defense against the threat of a privacy breach.
Compliance is an ongoing effort in your clinic. Regulations change with the landscape. New ransomware and phishing attacks are unleashed every day. As your clinic evolves, so must your policies and procedures, and all your staff should receive regular privacy compliance training to help them identify and combat any threat to clinic security.
