Several health systems and other healthcare companies have signed on to an organization that aims to protect the industry from cybersecurity risks involving third-party vendors.
The Health 3rd Party Trust Initiative and Council, or Health3PT, said Jan. 11 it plans to team up to better assess and manage third-party cybersecurity.
While about half of healthcare organizations have suffered a recent third-party data breach, according to a study from software vendor SecureLink, less than a third of them monitor their cybersecurity exposure in real time from outside vendors, IT consulting firm Gartner found.
Its members include cybersecurity executives from:
Health systems:
— Centura Health (Centennial, Colo.)
— HCA Healthcare (Nashville, Tenn.)
— Highmark Health (Pittsburgh)
— Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (New York City)
— Piedmont Healthcare (Atlanta)
— St. Luke's Health System (Boise, Idaho)
— Tufts Medicine (Burlington, Mass.)
— UPMC (Pittsburgh)
Other organizations:
— AmeriHealth Caritas
— AmerisourceBergen
— Attest Health Care Advisors
— CVS
— Evolent Health
— Health Care Service Corp.
— Healthix
— HealthStream
— Highmark BCBS
— Humana
— Premera Blue Cross
— Virtual Health
— Walgreens