NYC Health + Hospitals utilizes Accellion platform for securely sharing PHI
Summary
Via email, Marianna Prodan, healthcare solutions manager at Accellion, elaborated on what her company can do for the health system. The solution is particularly important, she said, as NYC Health + Hospitals’ network is “the largest in the country.” “Providing quality care includes being able to share patient information efficiently and timely as a patient moves across the care continuum — from registration to examination and diagnosis to procedures, prescriptions, discharge and billing,” Prodan noted. In a statement, Soma Bhaduri, its director of information security and risk management, said: With kiteworks, we can connect to our content repositories from a single platform and share PHI securely with our trusted partners through Outlook — an intuitive interface that our staff uses all day, every day. Hackers have found ways to break into health IT systems, glean the compromised data and sell it on the dark web. “Data loss can cost these organizations millions of dollars in ransom payments and regulatory fines,” Prodan said.