Healthcare CISO Group Focuses on Third-Party Risk Challenges>
Info Risk Today – Marianne Kolbasuk Mcgee
A coalition of healthcare sector firms including heavyweights CVS and Walgreens on Wednesday launched an effort to put pressure on vendors to improve their cybersecurity.

The Health 3rd Party Trust, or Health3PT, includes a council of nearly two dozen healthcare sector CISOs and other security risk leaders.

The group is supported by healthcare standards and framework certification body HITRUST, and CORL, a healthcare third-party risk management services and solutions provider.

Health3PT members hope that collectively their market power can “convince our third parties that they really need to be HITRUST-certified,” Houston says. “We’re trying to move the market to say, ‘This is the cost of doing business in the healthcare space.’”

Other members of the new Health3PT Council include CISOs and security risk leaders of healthcare sector organizations including: AmeriHealth Caritas, Amerisource Bergen, Attest Health Care Advisors, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Centura Health, Evolent Health, HCA Healthcare, Health Care Service Corp., Healthix, HealthStream, Humana, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Piedmont Healthcare, Premera Blue Cross, St. Luke’s Health System, Tufts Medicine, and Virtual Health.
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