Healthcare IT Today June 2, 2023
The following is a guest article by Bala Kumar, Chief Product Officer at Jumio
The list of responsibilities for a CISO in healthcare is constantly growing. Today’s threat landscape requires them to plan for ransomware and malware attacks, protect against traditional vulnerabilities in legacy equipment, and mitigate the risk of internal threats.
With those competing priorities, fraud prevention does not always make its way to the top of the list of considerations, even when it should. According to the National Health Care Anti-Fraud Association, fraud costs the U.S. healthcare industry more than $50 billion each year.
When a patient’s identity is compromised, thieves can use this stolen data to file phony claims with insurance providers. Not only does...