Dive Brief:
- The College of Healthcare Information Executives (CHIME) has announced its Cybersecurity Center and Program Office that will work to develop best practices via more collaboration between industry and federal agencies.
- CHIME and the Association for Executives in Healthcare Information Security (AEHIS) will serve as advisors to the new center, which aims to help healthcare organizations effectively address cybersecurity.
- Marc Probst, CHIME Board Chair, recently testified before the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health, emphasizing the importance of coordination between industry and federal programs as key to beefing up networks' security.
Dive Insight:
David Finn, a CHIME board member, and Symantec Corporation's health IT officer said in a statement that sharing cyber data is crucial to the industry so that it can be "useful intelligence."
KPMG's 2015 Cyber Healthcare Survey found close to 80% of healthcare executives said their data was compromised by cyberattacks and that the healthcare industry lags behind other sectors in being prepared for cyber threats.
IBM's 2016 Cyber Security Intelligence Index labeled 2015 as "the year of the healthcare breach," with more than 100 million compromised healthcare records.
It seems CHIME's new Cybersecurity Center has the potential to provide some much-needed data and solutions for the healthcare sector.