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TAKING A HOLISTIC APPROACH TO HEALTHCARE DATA PROTECTION
wIT managers in healthcare settings are increasingly balancing the need to keep highly sensitive data secure and ensure compliance with regulations while enabling innovation to improve patient experiences . Speaking to Intelligent CIO Africa , Glyn Yates , Regional Lead , IMEA , Matrix42 , highlights how IT managers in healthcare environments can take a proactive and holistic approach to protecting data .
What challenges are IT managers in healthcare environments experiencing Unchecked data enters the IT infrastructure through given increasing digitisation ? patients and physicians ; this data must be recorded and always be accessible for further patient treatment . IT security managers in hospitals and physicians Risks arise here in the course of data protection but in private practices , who usually have to take also malware infestation . This is because external data care of their own data protection , are now faced with the challenge of creating a legally compliant level of data protection for their patients without incurring major costs and deploying large numbers of staff . carriers are often contaminated with viruses and the like .
The loss of a data carrier with sensitive information can have immense consequences but the storage of data on local systems must also be secure .
In many hospitals , data is collected , processed and stored in the so-called hospital information system ( HIS ). Still , there are some challenges in dealing with various data repositories and transmissions .
In addition , there are further challenges in the course of medical devices , which may only be maintained to a limited extent , as well as the problem that many users have administrator rights on their ward computers .
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