Our mission at Protenus is to advance the science of healthcare by bringing together creative and skilled individuals who are passionate about the security, usability, and applicability of health data. As this information becomes more voluminous, comprehensive, and, as a consequence, more vulnerable, we are building scalable, insightful solutions that address critical issues preventing the efficient, safe, and effective delivery of patient care.

Our mission at Protenus is to advance the science of healthcare by bringing together creative and skilled individuals who are passionate about the security, usability, and applicability of health data. As this information becomes more voluminous, comprehensive, and, as a consequence, more vulnerable, we are building scalable, insightful solutions that address critical issues preventing the efficient, safe, and effective delivery of patient care.

Our mission at Protenus is to advance the science of healthcare by bringing together creative and skilled individuals who are passionate about the security, usability, and applicability of health data. As this information becomes more voluminous, comprehensive, and, as a consequence, more vulnerable, we are building scalable, insightful solutions that address critical issues preventing the efficient, safe, and effective delivery of patient care.

When Protenus was first building its sales and marketing team, I joined as the Senior Marketing Manager. This meant shaping marketing initiatives to make Protenus more successful, and determining which priorities we should tackle first. As I was a “jack-of-all-trades,” I was working on everything from marketing strategy to trade show logistics to content that would elevate our brand within the healthcare industry.  

A recent report has stated that patient records affected by health data breaches have hit a four-year low in 2017.  Unfortunately, while these findings are promising, the number of breach incidents remains steady and continues to represent a constant threat to patient data security.  There also seems to be a continuing trend in which health data breaches that have affected the most patient records in a given month are the result of hacking while breaches that have taken the longest to detect are the result of insiders. February continues this trend, with a ransomware attack responsible for the largest single incident of the month and an insider-error incident that continued for over four years before it was detected by the healthcare organization. There was also one incident that was the result of insider-wrongdoing, and this particular case highlights just how insidious insider-wrongdoing breaches can be.