The value of healthcare peers in the cloud
Santiago adds that one aspect of cloud security that offers new complications is virtual care and “hospital at home”. “All these devices and care mechanisms need to speak to the hospital across the cloud, so we now have to look at how to use the cloud to protect them,” she says.
One of the benefits of health-visac and similar organizations is the opportunity to discuss these concerns and other concerns arising with their peers. Nearly 1,000 health care organizations belong to the Health-SAC, which wees refer to the name of the “Dhahi District Monitoring Program”.
For example, the Health-SAC members can communicate with others who use the same general cloud service providers to exchange information about the nuances in those environments. Health-SAC is also developing information about threats and weaknesses, which is a special useful service for small organizations without a budget to support threat intelligence.
For most institutions, Weiss notes that the transition to the cloud can benefit from safety, as long as they have skills and resources to support the end of the joint responsibility model.
“You get the use of the managed service in all kinds of ways that enhance safety, including best practices and the ability to benefit from learning from cloud service providers,” he says.
At the same time, institutions can continue to develop their own experience, including the ability to take advantage of the ability to observe, automate, detect and respond to improving cloud safety, as he adds: “Investing in your team and their skills, especially those that help to increase the number of publishing operations, this symbol is the amount and automation , He will continue to pay great profits in security.
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Many layers of safety in the cloud
Franciscan Health, a 12 -hospital system that serves Indiana and Ilinoi, recently expanded his cloud environment by deporting EHR Erm to Microsoft Azure. She already had approximately 400 Saas apps and a relationship with Azure.
However, the epic step is a new level of complexity, says Charles Christian, CTO and Vice President of Technology.
The organization knew that the transfer of the epic to Azure would enhance security and improve the access of data to support patient care, says Christian. But his team also realized that his participation was decisive in creating and preserving a safe environment.
“Initially, we assumed, as many people do, it is a walled garden, and you will have some underlying protection. But what we have learned is that it is not different from securing your data center.”
This means, for example, the walls of the protection within Azure, the tools of preventing data loss, tireless correction and best practices such as the lowest headquarters and temporary supervisor passwords. Christian says the team uses Microsoft compact panels and similar tools for monitoring purposes.
