MobiHealth News January 2, 2020
Jonah Comstock

Healthcare consumerism and cybersecurity might seem to be in tension, but it’s the job of security professionals to make it work, and that starts with a culture change.

Healthcare is full of tensions. For security professionals at innovative health systems, one tension that can be hard to navigate is the pull between innovation and caution, a topic several experts discussed last month at the Healthcare Security Forum in Boston.

“The job of the CISO is to say no, to look at risk,” John Halamka, president of the Mayo Clinic Platform, said at the event. “I had a CISO once tell me ‘The most secure library never checks out any books.’ Well that’s true, but that would be a somewhat useless...

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