

- Build the foundation for community trust in and safety of health information
- Bring money/ financing/ R+D funding into the community to build a secure health information ecosystem
- Serve as a forum for community information exchange and feedback on health information security
- Provide answers to questions from the community on health information security
- Establish the infrastructure (data, bandwidth) for information needed to support community-wide cyber security; support the ISAO already established here, and begin coordinating with and working closely with the National Cyber Exchange that has been recently formed here in Colorado Springs.
Implementation and Execution Activities:
- Provide the “go-to” knowledge base and platform for learning about health information security best practice
- Promote training materials, e.g. Cybrary, ISACA, ISSA courses, MGMA Risk Framework
- Ensure deployment of information security best practice throughout our community
- Promote and facilitate implementation of the Open Group standards, TOGAF framework, ITIL and ITSM, and NAT1 standards across the community
- Spread adoption of uniform standards, enhancing existing standards as needed
- Create value-driven discussions between health information security professionals and cyber security experts
Including the Local Community:
- Educate health care consumers and purchasers on health information security
- Cover the entire community, remembering to include especially small practice/ behavioral health, senior care, skilled nursing facilities
- Insure that underserved people are educated and their health information protected
- Involve health care providers, payers and consumers

Why is the HISCoE Needed ?
- The health care industry as a whole is being targeted by cyber threats at an increasingly alarming rate !
- Once outpaced significantly in terms of breaches and malicious attacks by other sectors such as financial and retail, health care is no longer on the sidelines.
- Bringing them front and center are five of the eight largest security breaches that have affected this industry in the last five years.
Healthcare Data Black Market
Healthcare data is highly valuable to hackers because they can sell it for a high price on the black market. And patient information that contains social security numbers is in especially high demand right now as it can be sold for upwards of $50 per record !
When compared to stolen credit card numbers, which only sell for about $1 each, the urgency to protect this data is obvious. Hackers stand to make a lot of money off of major breaches that expose millions of people’s data and the headlines indicate that the industry is losing this battle.
Criminals can also use medical records to fraudulently bill private insurers and Medicare. They can steal patients’ identities for free consultations or to get prescriptions they can ultimately sell. Unfortunately, it gets worse. The consequences of a data breach are disproportionately high for the healthcare industry.
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