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JUL 2016

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26 Security Dealer & Integrator / www.SecurityInfoWatch.com July 2016 W orkplace vio- lence — once the corner- stone risk of healthcare security — may not be the first thing a hospital security director is worried about in today's climate. It appears, in fact, that physical security measures deployed in hospi- tals and other facilities have contrib- uted to a marked downturn in violent crime. e 2016 Healthcare Crime Sur- vey, conducted by the International Association for Healthcare Security and Safety (IAHSS) Foundation, ana- lyzed 263 U.S. hospitals and found that violent crime — which includes murder, rape, robbery and aggravated assault — declined by more than 67 percent between 2014 and 2015. "Hospitals, in general, for the past five years at least, have spent an extraordinary amount of time, energy and resources on working towards reducing workplace violence," says Karim Vellani, CPP, CSC, the study's lead author and President of reat Analysis Group LLC. "ose efforts could very well being paying off." Today, perhaps the most feared threat confronting the healthcare land- Market Report: New Attack Vectors in Healthcare Cover Story With violence down in hospitals and cyber attacks on the rise, the role of the traditional security integrator in this market is rapidly evolving By Paul Rothman scape is data protection. "It doesn't have as direct an impact — it isn't an active shooter aer all — but the long- term damage that can result from a data breach in healthcare can be just as debilitating financially as an active shooter can be to a facility," says Bryan Warren, Director of Corporate Secu- rity for Carolinas Healthcare System — the second-largest public not-for-profit healthcare provider in the U.S., with 43 hospitals, more than 900 locations in the Carolinas and 70,000 employees. Of all the customers that security integrators serve, healthcare clients are the ones who secure perhaps the most valuable of data — Protected Health Information (PHI), which can include anything from basic identify-

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