A Complete Guide to Third-Party Risk Management in Healthcare | UpGuard

This guide outlines third-party risk management (TPRM) for healthcare, detailing the risk landscape, regulatory obligations (HIPAA, GDPR, NIST), and common challenges, then prescribing 10 key strategies including due diligence, contractual controls, least-privilege access, continuous and fourth‑party monitoring, security awareness, encryption, data minimization, compliance enforcement, and cyber resilience/incident response. It highlights notable third‑party breach examples to underscore risks, and emphasizes continuous oversight, vulnerability management, and coordinated breach handling with vendors to protect patient data and operational integrity.