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Subject: [ISN] Presbyterian CISO stresses importance of governance
From: InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews ! org>
Date: 2013-07-23 6:10:19
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By Patrick Ouellette
Health IT Security
July 22, 2013
Without the right governance in place, a Chief Information Security
Officer (CISO) is unofficially on their own island with little help from
the outside, according to Kim Sassaman, CISSP and CISO of Presbyterian
Healthcare Services of New Mexico. During last Wednesday's Institute for
Health Technology Transformation (iHT2) "Governance is the Key to
Enterprise Execution of your Security Program" webinar, Sassaman explained
why governance can be misinterpreted and how it's applied at Presbyterian.
Sassaman, who is also the Information Security Director, began by
explaining how Presbyterian is an integrated system, health plan and
delivery system with eight Hospitals, 80 clinics and 400 employed
providers. He said that historically, security has to kick open doors but
that governance is the key to opening closed doors. In the past, according
to Sassaman, the clinical side thought IT folks were against them and
didn't know how they could help. Whereas now, the paradigm shift has
enabled IT to be in the driver's seat and force decisions upon clinical
staff. In an ideal world, both sides would work in unison.
"You want to get to the point where physicians are embracing the controls
and policies that you're deploying and they're even the ones championing
it," he said. "And the best way to do that is governance."
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