WASHINGTON, April 26, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- In a panel
discussion at the annual Health Datapalooza conference in
Washington,
DC, Protenus CEO and Co-Founder Nick Culbertson today spoke about how healthcare
organizations can work to close the gap between two conflicting
mandates: Sharing data to glean critical insights that will improve
patient care, reduce costs, and enable innovation, while protecting
the data and the privacy of the patients in their care.
"The challenges that we face in healthcare are different than
virtually any other part of the information security industry,"
said Nick Culbertson, Protenus CEO
and Co-Founder. "The whole paradigm for how you protect information
is different, and the approaches for protecting privacy are
different. To treat patients, and to get actionable insights, the
default for health data has to be set to 'open.' Any hospital has
multiple systems requesting access to data every day, often more
than they need, and themselves not knowing what the use of that
data is. After you've set the default to 'open,' you need a strong
auditing platform to know how that access is being used."
Health Datapalooza brings together federal policymakers,
regulatory leads, startups and chief information officers from
health systems across the country, who share a mission to use data
to improve health and healthcare. The conference is an annual
gathering place for people and organizations creating knowledge
from data, and pioneering innovations that drive health policy and
practice.
Health Datapalooza organizers invited Culbertson to join
"Practical Approaches to Data Privacy," an interactive panel of
payers, researchers, and technologists will offer practical
approaches to data privacy and security.
"You need multiple layers of protection, like multi-factor
authentication, in order to protect health data," Culbertson added.
"But for those who have some legitimate access to health data, like
employees or business associates, you also need analytics. To
determine if people are sharing credentials, exhibiting behavior
out of the ordinary, or just looking at data without a real reason
to be doing so."
Technological advances in artificial intelligence and machine
learning have made it possible, for the first time ever, to audit
every access to health data, giving organizations the ability to
share health data safely and securely.
The panel, which covered topics like data governance,
collaborative tools, and the role of innovators in protecting
patient privacy, was moderated by Deven
McGraw, formerly Deputy Director, Health Information Privacy
at the Office for Civil Rights, U.S. Department of Health &
Human Services, and now Chief Regulatory Officer at Citizen. Also
participating were William
Dougherty, of Omada Health; Norma
Padron, Center for Population Health Research at Main Line
Health and the Jefferson College of
Population Health; and Sheryl
Turney, of Anthem Inc.
About Protenus
The Protenus healthcare compliance analytics platform uses
artificial intelligence to audit every access to patient records
for the nation's leading health systems. Providing healthcare
leaders full insight into how health data is being used, and
alerting privacy, security and compliance teams to inappropriate
activity, Protenus helps our partner hospitals make decisions about
how to better protect their data, their patients, and their
institutions. Learn more at Protenus.com and follow us on Twitter
@Protenus.
Contact
Kira Caban
Director, Public Relations
kira@protenus.com
410-913-0274
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