Don't let your business associates make you a statistic.
Given the amount of sensitive information shared outside a healthcare organization's four walls, business associates represent a risk to healthcare organizations that simply cannot be ignored.

Nearly nine out of ten breaches investigated by Verizon are considered avoidable if basic security principles are followed. Seventy percent of data breaches are discovered by a third party, according to the 2009 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report. With the average cost per breached healthcare record at $282, 30 percent greater than the average cost of records breached across all industries, how do you make sure you never have to find out the cost to your organization of a data breach?

Join HITRUST and Verizon Healthcare Services for an engaging presentation on the HITECH Act's security implications on breach notifications and business associates. Learn how the HITRUST Common Security Framework (CSF) and CSF Assurance Program can strengthen your and your business associates' security and compliance programs. Gain insights from Verizon's investigation of over 285 million breached records to give you the intelligence you need to ensure your business associates represent an opportunity for you and not a threat.

Speakers

• Cliff Baker, Chief Strategy Officer, HITRUST
• Peter Tippett, Chief Medical Officer and VP of Research & Technology, Verizon Business

About Verizon and its healthcare practice

Verizon is a global leader in communications, security services, and IT solutions. We combine professional expertise with the world's most connected IP network and America's most reliable wireless network to deliver award-winning communications, IT, information security and network solutions. The Verizon portfolio for healthcare leverages IT, security, wireless, and other communications solutions to enable secure interoperability between healthcare applications such as EHR, PACS, practice management, charge capture, remote patient management and many other healthcare IT applications. Verizon is a HITRUST CSF Assessor and a member of HITRUST's Leadership Roundtable.