Healthcare IT News January 19, 2021
Experts at the American Telemedicine Association’s EDGE policy conference on Tuesday said that cybersecurity is a shared responsibility and should be treated as such.
Experts have repeatedly predicted that telehealth would present a major challenge for healthcare cybersecurity in the coming year.
But it’s not enough to know telehealth is likely to be an issue. The real task is working collaboratively to address those dangers.
At the second installment of the American Telemedicine Association’s EDGE policy conference on Tuesday, leaders in the healthcare space reiterated the importance of cybersecurity as a patient safety issue.
“We’ve been measuring the risks and the threat for telemedicine-type services for many years,” said Christopher Logan, director of healthcare industry strategy at...