The healthcare industry is constantly entrusted with huge amounts of highly sensitive data. Data that holds extremely private information for millions of people.
Big data is here, there are ever more ways to create data, and the healthcare industry needs to cope with that increase. Healthcare data content can be text documents, patient records, test results, staff HR records, contracts, video, photography, digital xrays etc – it can be structured or unstructured – digital data management is a complex task without the rights tools.
Fines can be large for data breaches and lack of compliance, there is plenty of evidence highlighting the size and scale – enough to close businesses. But customer trust is also another big issue, reputation in a digital age can spread faster than ever.
So what value do data discovery, data classification and data protection have to your business? The instinct is to lead with data protection, and there is of course huge value there, but the value of a business understanding its data, and the value of employees appreciating the value of data also have business benefits.