CynergisTek, Inc., an Austin, Texas-based healthcare cybersecurity firm, is partnering with Protenus, a healthcare compliance analytics company, to combine the companies’ technology tools and services with a focus on patient privacy monitoring programs.
The partnership will grant health systems access to Protenus’ analytics platform that leverages artificial intelligence to gather data related to potential patient privacy risks, along with CynergisTek’s patient privacy monitoring services.
According to the Protenus research, insider incidents accounted for 23 percent of all breaches that occurred at health systems in Q3 2018. This figure will only continue increasing, indicating that now more than ever, health systems need a cost-effective solution to meet the daily challenges of managing patient privacy.
To address this need, CynergisTek and Protenus formed a preferred partnership to combine CynergisTek’s healthcare consulting experience and privacy programs with Protenus’ healthcare analytics technology to offer health systems both the people, processes, and technology components of a strong patient privacy monitoring program, according to the companies.
“As health systems face mounting challenges in creating and maintaining robust patient privacy monitoring programs, we identified a need to partner with a company offering complementary services so that health systems can act on the insights uncovered by our analytics,” Nick Culbertson, CEO and co-founder of Protenus, said in a statement.
“Data privacy is evolving as a dominate theme in conversations, both in healthcare and other industries, and health systems need to take an end-to-end approach to patient privacy to truly address this complex and mission-critical challenge,” Mac McMillan, CEO and president of CynergisTek, said in a statement.
