Healthcare

You enhance your organization with an entire team of security experts.

When You Partner With
Digital Forge

You enhance your organization with an entire team of security experts.

Technological advancements have transformed the healthcare industry. As record keeping and medical devices transition to digital formats, the cyber threat landscape changes drastically. In recent years, cybercriminals have increased their target on the

healthcare industry due to the unique nature of personal health information (PHI). With threats rapidly growing, regulations and compliance standards have expanded to ensure the safety of this information.

HITRUST

Healthcare Security Solutions

HIPPAA

Healthcare Compliance Solutions

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Healthcare

Industry
Transformation

Stringent compliance regulations

With stringent compliance regulations in place, such as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), the best way for healthcare organizations to meet compliance and secure data is through seeking the expert guidance of a team of cybersecurity professionals.

Stay compliant and heighten security

At Digital Forge, we help healthcare organizations stay compliant and heighten security, ensuring the safety of patient data and the integrity of medical devices. We perform audits to assess your current state of security and gain a comprehensive understanding of your inventory to properly maintain minimum threat levels.

Solutions for on-the-go doctors

As a part of the healthcare industry transformation, bring-your-own-device culture is becoming a popular solution for on-the-go doctors, presenting a whole new scope of risks. Digital Forge will properly maintain the inventory of these devices and implement the necessary plan of action, should a device become lost or stolen.

The HITRUST
CSF Encompasses

The number of security, privacy, and regulatory challenges faced by all organizations continues to rise, and they are an increasingly critical concern for the healthcare industry. The HITRUST CSF was developed to address and solve these challenges and concerns.

The CSF helps organizations in the healthcare industry handle security challenges by combining state and federal regulations, standards, and a risk-based approach delivered in a comprehensive and flexible framework.

What the HITRUST CSF encompasses:

Includes existing standards, regulations, and requirements including ISO, NIST, PCI, HIPAA, and state laws
Customized controls based on organization size, type, and complexity
Risk-based approach
Flexible adoption of other controls if necessary
Continuous improvement

Healthcare Security Solutions With Digital Forge

Digital Forge provides a clear and comprehensive solution for health care organizations to asses themselves against the HITRUST CSF.

Through auditing, security, and compliance solutions, our team of cybersecurity intelligence experts will help you understand and tackle:

How HIPAA, HITECH, and other regulations and standards impact your organization

What your organization’s biggest vulnerabilities and risks are
How you can effectively secure your organization
The IT security solutions you need to implement for compliance
How to demonstrate, document, and maintain compliance

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An Approved CSF Assessor

As a CSF Assessor, Digital Forge can provide cost-effective and efficient assessments to determine your organization’s current compliance standing and help implement security solutions that align with HITRUST CSF.

For more on understanding and leveraging CSF, contact Digital Forge today. Let’s see how we can take your organization beyond compliance.

healthcare For more on understanding and leveraging CSF, contact Digital Forge today. Let’s see how we can take your organization beyond compliance healthcare

HIPAA
compliance

Not meeting compliance with HIPAA means facing severe penalties, fines, a loss in customers and business partners, and a diminished reputation.

What is HIPAA?

HIPAA is a federal law passed in 1996 that sets the national standard for data privacy and security provisions for sensitive medical information.

Among many other components, it includes the HIPAA privacy rule which encompasses the technical and nontechnical safeguards that organizations must put in place to secure electronic protected health information (PHI).

This information includes but is not limited to:

Patient’s name, address, birth date, and social security number
Patient’s physical or mental health condition
Care that is provided to an individual
Payment information
Any information that can be used for identification

Who Must Follow HIPAA?

HIPAA compliance must be met by all organizations that are considered HIPAA covered entities.

HIPAA covered entities includes any organization that deals with providing treatment, payment, or operations in healthcare and any associates that have access to patient information and assist with payment, treatment, or operations in the healthcare industry. Subcontractors and other related businesses associated with the healthcare industry must also meet compliance.

The High Cost of HIPAA Non-Compliance

The rules of HIPAA are set to ensure that the confidential patient data your organization has access to doesn’t fall into the wrong hands, but HIPAA non-compliance will cost you more than a diminished reputation and loss in patient loyalty.

HIPAA non-compliance can cost anywhere from $100 to $50,000 per violation, depending on the level of negligence found to be associated with the violation; with an annual maximum of $1.5 million. And on top of fines, heavy legal implications may be faced.

If your organization is a part of the healthcare industry, non-compliance with HIPAA is not an option. And while meeting compliance can be an overwhelming process, the experts at Digital Forge are here to guide you along the way.

Contact us to find out how we can help assess your current standing and help you reach and maintain compliance.