Tasked with managing an exploding volume of patient, provider, and employee data, hospitals and health systems are increasingly making IT security a top priority. This focus comes just in time, as the healthcare industry has emerged as a major target for cyber-attacks, accounting for 41 percent of all breaches last year (Beazley Breach Briefing – 2019, March 21, 2019.) Clearly, the healthcare industry must take all necessary steps to enhance systems and data protection without impacting the users—providers and healthcare workers across the board—of the systems.
Founded in 1983 in South Africa, NTT Australia today operates in 49 countries on six continents. Our growth has been driven by our clients' need to operate efficiently in an environment where collaborative partnerships and the intelligent network have emerged as the two most important business enablers.
Headquartered in California, Forward Advantage, through its im-one initiative, provides identity management solutions to the healthcare industry. We bring together a unique combination of identity management technologies and professional services, offering healthcare organizations with improved information security while increasing convenience for their clinicians to access their information systems.