Cybersecurity is front of mind for hospitals and healthcare organizations seeking to stop the steady drumbeat of ransomware attacks, which can impair hospitals for weeks. But even cybersecurity companies can suffer setbacks and present new IT challenges for hospitals, as demonstrated by the recent outages due to Crowdstrike. The company’s software update prevented affected hospitals from accessing their electronic health records until the issue was resolved.
At the INVEST Digital Health conference on September 18 at Pegasus Park in Dallas, cybersecurity will be part of the conversation in the form of a panel discussion in which cybersecurity is dubbed the Achilles’ heel of healthcare. Leaders from health systems and tech companies will discuss how they are working together to help bolster their defenses against global hackers. Among the panelists, so far, are:
John Mowery, Houston Methodist Chief Information Security Officer (CISO)
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Andrew Molosky, Chapters Health System CEO. Molosky also serves as CareNu CEO, Chapters Health’s value-based subsidiary, which provides predictive analytics, risk modeling, case management and social determinants of health analysis to care delivery.
Ben Schwering, Premier Inc. CISO
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At the INVEST conference in May, as part of a fireside chat, Deputy Director of Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Nitin Natarajan told MedCity Editor-in-Chief Arundhati Parmar, “In the past, healthcare facilities were always protected, even in kinetic warfare. We never used to attack hospitals — we never attacked a tent with the red cross on it. But we now see hospitals attacked on a regular basis.”
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In the same month, HHS launched a new cybersecurity program providing $50 million to develop better cybersecurity defense tools for healthcare providers. Natarajan emphasized the need for all healthcare organization employees to have at least basic cybersecurity training, such as knowing how to use two-factor authentication and how to spot phishing emails.
To attend the INVEST Digital Health conference in Dallas September 18, register today!
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