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A series of cyber attacks by a ransomware group called Clop has affected a number of industries from household goods to healthcare.The group targeted a zero-day vulnerability in Fortra’s GoAnywhere MFT file-transfer tool, which lets companies securely exchange files. Fortra released a patch on Feb. 7. More than 3,000 organizations use GoAnywhere, according to Fortra.
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Between remote work models, clinician burnout and an increased reliance on traveling healthcare professionals to meet shortages, the transient nature of the healthcare workforce in the pandemic era has deepened the risk of insider threats and data security.
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There is perhaps no topic in healthcare that’s bigger and more relevant than digital transformation. There’s also no topic that can be interpreted in as many ways.“Digital transformation can mean a lot of things to different people,” said Sean Kelly, CMO and SVP of Customer Strategy, Imprivata), who moderated a panel on the subject at ViVE23. Kelly, who is also a practicing emergency physician at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, likened driving digital transformation to “reengineering a plane while still flying it.”
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Cybersecurity is a Patient Safety Issue – ImprivataAccording to Wes Wright, Chief Technology Officer at Imprivata, cybersecurity in healthcare should be considered a patient safety issue since it impacts patient data and patient outcomes when that data is rendered inaccessible. To help all healthcare organizations implement proper cybersecurity measures, Wright suggests that governments consider a funding program like Meaningful Use which accelerated the adoption of EHRs.
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Over a decade after ‘Meaningful Use’ – a program that was supposed to improve quality at the point of patient care – clinicians are still struggling to do their jobs. But is technology becoming the problem? Although the transition to electronic health records (EHR) was meant to make healthcare faster and safer, accessing it (efficiently) has proven to be a major obstacle.