Electronic Health Record systems are the highest-value target in healthcare cybersecurity — containing billing data, clinical histories, and prescription records that command premium prices on criminal markets — and their connectivity to labs, pharmacies, imaging systems, and payer networks creates a lateral-movement risk that Zero Trust microsegmentation directly addresses. HIPAA Security Rule technical safeguards, ONC certification requirements, and the HHS 405(d) guidelines all point toward identity-centric access controls and audit logging that Zero Trust architecture operationalises for EHR deployments.
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