Fortifying Healthcare IT: Strategies to Protect Your Organization from Rising Class Action Lawsuits

Aravind Swaminathan will co-lead a discussion with cybersecurity veterans from Critical Insight on the origin of the private right of action for privacy breaches, the effects of these suits on healthcare and other sectors, and where it’s going from here.

Unauthorized disclosure of protected information is bad enough – the dreaded ‘records breach’. But today, because of privacy statutes in California and elsewhere, records disclosure is quickly followed by class action lawsuits. This does not have a deterrent effect, and as the healthcare sector is preferentially targeted for extortion, a situation is developing where we are suing our own hospitals out of business.

Learn why plaintiffs do or do not have standing to sue, and steps you can take to protect your organization from becoming a litigation target. Gain insider strategies on how to demonstrate compliance with State and Federal regulations to serve as a ‘safe harbor’, why communication is your best ally, and how proposed federal privacy legislation may change everything.