5 Steps to Managing Third-Party Risk in the Healthcare Industry

Written by the Health Information Management Working Group. Healthcare organizations are struggling to identify, protect, detect, respond, and recover from third-party or vendor-related data breaches, vulnerabilities, and threat events. The number of third-party vendors that handle sensitive data has grown as the volume and complexity of securing electronic medical data has increased. This poses a significant risk to Healthcare Delivery Organizations (HDOs). As the number of third-party vendo...

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