On this week’s episode of Let’s Talk Integration, our host Teresa Fallico welcomes Rohit Joshi, CEO of Brightsquid, to join her in a conversation around the importance of privacy and security in relation to healthcare interoperability.

Brightsquid is a web-based medical grade collaboration and information sharing platform that centralizes communication between health-care professionals and their patients. Rohit has been working in software and digital security in North America for over 20 years. He is a privacy specialist, expert speaker, and lawyer with an extensive background in technology and compliance law. With vast experience in healthcare communications, Rohit is well-versed in identifying opportunities for integration improvements within the healthcare industry, which is why we were excited to have this conversation with him.

Highlights from this week’s episode: 

• Why privacy and security are important for information sharing in the healthcare industry
• Major privacy and security challenges Rohit has seen in healthcare when embarking on interoperability
• Comparison of security and privacy standards in the US vs Canada 
• Statistics around clinics facing cyber attacks in North America 
• Types of security breaches 
• What clinics can do to measure their risk of a breach
• Common reasons as to why organizations are poorly prepared for potential threats to sensitive information
• Employee vulnerability to security breaches 
• Policy, regulatory, and general interoperability trends emerging in the healthcare industry