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Results of HIMSS 18th Annual CIO Survey Released

http://www.himss.org/2007Survey/DOCS/18thAnnualLeadershipSurvey.pdf

7. IT Security
Healthcare IT professionals identified an internal breach of security as their primary concern regarding data security and 18 percent reported that their organization has experienced a security breach in the past six months. Nearly all of the survey respondents (96 percent) indicated that they have concerns about the security of the data at the organizations at which they work; this is similar to
what respondents have reported in the past. Despite the widereaching concern, only 18
percent of respondents indicated that their organization has experienced a security breach at their organization in the past six months. For the past several years, respondents have indicated that an internal breach of security
was their primary concern with regard to data security at their organization. This has not changed, as 57 percent of respondents to the 2007 survey reported that an internal
breach of security is their top data security concern.
Rounding out the top three responses were compliance with HIPAA security regulations, identified by 30 percent of respondents, and limits of existing security technology (26
percent). Respondents were least likely to identify their patient’s lack of confidence in
the security of their personal data; this was identified by only 13 percent of the
respondents.

Respondents were also asked to identify the security technologies that they would use or implement at their organization in the next two years. Respondents were most likely to report that disaster recovery was the security technology that they would implement in the next two years; this was identified by 70 percent of respondents.
Rounding out the top five security technologies that were projected for use in the future were firewalls (69 percent), user access controls (68 percent), audit logs (64 percent) and
singlesign on (64 percent). Least frequently identified was publickey infrastructure (24 percent). Respondents anticipated that they would use a combination of multiple technologies to
secure data at their organization. Half of the respondents indicated that they anticipated
that their organization would use seven or more of the technologies identified in this
survey in the next two years. Only ten percent of the respondents indicated that they
would use only one of the technologies identified in this survey.

Figures:
Figure 12. Security Breach in Last Twelve Months
Figure 13. Top Concerns—Security of Computerized Medical Information
Figure 14. Security Technologies (Next Two Years)