This is a guest blog post by Jenn Markey, Product Marketing Director, Identity, at Entrust. She leads product marketing for Entrust’s Identity business segment. 

Healthcare is undergoing rapid digital transformation from in-person care and paper records to a model more closely resembling mobile banking. Either out of necessity or convenience, telemedicine has gone mainstream with a more than 1 billion virtual U.S. healthcare visits last year.

Technologies like mobile, IoT, and blockchain, which are enabling this transformation, also inject new challenges and risks if adopted without proper attention to security. Indeed, healthcare is vulnerable and being overtly targeted by bad actors. At $7.13M, healthcare has the highest average data breach cost, almost double the overall average.

A breach is bad enough, but healthcare providers may also face legal reporting obligations and potential litigation from regulators, contractual relations, and impacted individuals. Security tools to identify and respond to such incidents can cut the cost by more than half, but only 23 percent of healthcare organizations have such tools deployed.

As healthcare looks to a digital future, Entrust and Citrix have partnered to address the unique security challenges of healthcare organizations including:

  • The massive shift to digital healthcare delivery with telemedicine, contactless care, and outpatient/in-home care
  • Management of an increasingly complex hybrid/multi-cloud environment with no discernible network perimeter
  • Patient expectations for privacy, security and seamless interactions

Together, Entrust Identity and Citrix Workspace are enabling this digital transformation by providing healthcare workers with instant secure access to patient information anytime, anywhere, from any device. Keep your healthcare workforce secure and productive with Entrust Identity and Citrix Workspace.

Learn more about how Entrust Identity and Citrix can help your healthcare organization navigate this digital journey securely at the virtual Citrix Ready Pavilion at HIMSS21.