In healthcare, trust is critical. You want to handle your patients' personal data as sensitively as you handle your patients. But according to a 2008 study by the Ponemon Institute, the healthcare industry is among the top three industries most frequently victimized by data breaches.*2008 Annual Study: Cost of a Data Breach, Ponemon Institute, LLC. And now the HITECH Act is raising accountability and breach response costs, with penalties for data breach as high as $1.5M. ID Experts has extensive experience working with some of the most prominent US healthcare institutions providing services to address data breach risks.
Privacy protection is the first line of defense for your organization and your patients. ID Experts® Breach Services for Healthcare identifies your HITECH-imposed security and privacy obligations, and associated data breach risks, then helps mitigate and manage these risks to protect your organization from data breaches, stiff regulatory penalties and the administrative burdens associated with the HITECH Act. Our expert team performs a thorough Risk Assessment and develops a customized Incident Response Plan to ensure your compliance with the data breach regulations of the HITECH Act. Our services help protect your organization from the business risks of non-compliance, while protecting your patients from the potentially devastating, or even life-threatening risks of medical identity theft.
In case of a breach, our ID Experts Breach Respond™ will help you through the complexity of a healthcare breach response, ensuring full compliance with HIPAA, HITECH and state requirements, so you can respond and notify properly and avoid fines. We can assist you with notification requirements not just to your patients affected by any data breach, but also to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as HITECH requires.
Our expert team has years of experience creating tailored notification, monitoring, protection and advisory services for breach victims with special needs, such as elderly patients or those with mental health issues or physical disabilities, and our professional staff and data systems meet HIPAA and HITECH security standards. Our expertise and discretion protect your organization and your patients, helping to ensure full recovery for both.
Healthcare Breach
We have managed numerous breaches for major healthcare providers. They value our expertise in legal presentment, reducing financial and legal risks, and providing their customers and patients with both comforting advice and identity theft assistance when necessary.
We focus on helping you to avoid breaches where possible and to achieve a positive outcome for the individuals affected by a data breach. Our experts will help you reduce your out-of-pocket costs as well as risks associated with litigation.
Learn more about ID Experts' Breach Prevent™ for Healthcare services and Breach Respond.