Segregated healthcare networks rarely work, expert says

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http://www.csoonline.com/article/726103/segregated-healthcare-networks-rarely-work-expert-says

By Taylor Armerding
CSO
January 09, 2013

There are ways for healthcare organizations to protect the electronic 
health records (EHR) of their patients. But a segregated network for EHR 
is generally not one of them, says Martin Fisher, director of 
information security for Atlanta-based Wellstar Health System.

Fisher disputes a recommendation for segregated networks by Robert 
Hudock, a lawyer and certified "ethical hacker" cited yesterday in CSO 
Online's story on the epidemic of healthcare data breaches.

Hudock's first recommendation to protect EHR, made in an interview last 
May with FierceEMR, is to keep them on a segregated network "if at all 
possible."

In that interview, Hudock said the Veterans Administration (VA) 
segregated its EHR after suffering significant infections, and improved 
its security significantly.

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