INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Data Security in Healthcare Data security is an often overlooked segment of healthcare IT. With more hospitals, intermediaries, and government bodies digitising their healthcare practices, the impact of this oversight can be catastrophic. An executive from one of India’s most prominent healthcare IT businesses takes an inventory of each of these challenges and recommends applied solutions. Saket Singhi, Founder and CEO, JVS Group
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A SI A N H O S P I T A L & H EA LT HCA R E M A N AGE M E N T
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he years 2020 and 2021 will be bookmarked as the years when healthcare became a central theme of concern for the entire planet. But, as one looks one layer into this ecosystem, one sees the vast, convoluted, often redundant, and inefficient network of healthcare data security practices. Each incumbent in the healthcare ecosystem – the insurance companies, data providers, hospitals, laboratories,
