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Insights from the Censinet team on healthcare risk, systemic exposure, and the evolving healthcare risk landscape.

May 11, 2026

October 2024

As the leaves turn orange and the nights grow longer, it's not just goblins that healthcare providers need to be wary of—it's also third-party risks lurking! To wrap up 'Spooky Season' and Cybersecurity Awareness Month...

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May 24, 2023

Voice of the Assessor

Voice of the Risk Assessor

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May 24, 2023

January 2023

Happy New Year! We hope you had a wonderful holiday season and are excited to kick off the new year with us. We have a lot of exciting updates to share with you. We are thrilled to announce...

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January 16, 2023

Healthcare Disrupts the Status Quo in Vendor Risk Management Solutions

In September of 2017, we founded Censinet with a big vision and mission: Take the risk out of healthcare by becoming the “trusted network” for third-party vendor risk management. in U.S. healthcare by 2022. Pretty big mission -- but is third-party...

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January 16, 2023

Censinet - Taking the Risk Out of Healthcare

Today, the biggest risks to patient care come from disruptions or downtime to clinical applications and medical devices caused by cyberattacks such as data breaches and ransomware. The Department of Health andHuman Services Office for Civil Rights...

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January 13, 2023

Why the Provider Community Needs a One-Stop Shop for Vendor Risk Management

The security risk posed by third-party healthcare vendors keeps Aaron Miri up at night. Miri is the CIO of Dell Medical School at the University of Texas at Austin and UT Health Austin and an evangelist for better healthcare vendor risk management...

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January 13, 2023

Why Vendors Need to Defend Highly Targeted Healthcare Providers from Third-Party Risk

Healthcare data is highly valuable, as just one medical record can be worth up to $250 on the black market (compared to $5.40 for the next highest valued record)...

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January 13, 2023

Third-Party Risk Costs the Healthcare Industry $23.7 Billion a Year

Censinet was founded on the promise of improving third-party risk management processes for healthcare providers – procedures that are constantly failing both systems and patients. As a society not only have we lacked the ability to adequately...

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January 13, 2023

Separating Yourself from Your Peers

The OCR portal on breaches shows that more individuals were impacted by breaches in the first half of 2019 than all of last year. With trend lines continuing to rise, it is crucial that healthcare providers understand risk vulnerabilities in order...

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January 13, 2023

The Strategic Imperative for Comprehensive Third-Party Risk Management

Though third-party vendors are an essential component to a functional and successful healthcare organization, they can pose a variety of significant cybersecurity threats with steep financial implications...

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January 13, 2023

The State of Security Threats in Healthcare’s Third-Party Vendor Relationships

Hospitals and healthcare organizations must rely on the indispensable services of interconnected technology and third-party vendors for day-to-day operations; however, these necessary components often present unique security risks. As the health...

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January 13, 2023

Third-Party Vendor Risk Management in Healthcare

Censinet provides risk questionnaires for pre-purchase initial risk assessments and post-purchase reassessments. These questionnaires assess 5 risk areas: Financial, Legal and Regulatory, Information Security, Availability, and Resiliency...

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January 13, 2023

How health organizations can effectively manage third-party risk

Stephen Wellman of HIMSS TV interviews Jigar Kadakia, Chief Information Security and Privacy Officer of Partners Healthcare, and Ed Gaudet, CEO of Censinet, about how healthcare organizations can effectively manage third-party risk...

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