CIO DIVE June 23, 2020
Samantha Ann Schwartz

For healthcare CISOs reflecting on March, little would have changed regarding their approach to remote work and telehealth — if anything, they would have moved faster.

Mike Gregory, CISO of Community Health Northwest Indiana, consulted his CIO to figure out a plan of action in March. “We stopped almost every project that was mid-implementation or about to be implemented,” he said on a virtual panel hosted by Proofpoint last week.

The systems “needed at the moment” took priority, he said. Community Health immediately contacted vendors to install thermal scanners at the hospital’s critical entrances, which allowed it to “deploy our nursing resources out to where they were needed the most — with our patients.”

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