Assessing Risk for Health Care IT Organizations

Assessing Risk for Health Care IT OrganizationsHealth care providers are adopting health care information technology (IT) to increase productivity, profitability, and the quality of patient care delivery. Adoption of health care IT will continue to expand around the globe, resulting in new challenges for the IT organization. Health care departments will demand that clinical and business systems be made resistant to interruption and unauthorized access. IT organizations must analyze vulnerabilities to threats, assess the potential impact of these threats to the organization, and implement appropriate loss control measures.

This white paper provides an overview of the risk assessment process for health care IT organizations, and includes recommendations for improving the storage infrastructure resistance to and resiliency from threats.

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