MedCity News March 13, 2025
How do you know a vendor handles data properly? Fortunately, independently-audited certifications can ease your concerns about a developer’s trustworthiness.
Data drives modern healthcare. Wearables can continuously monitor patients living at home while point-of-care medical technologies stream data into databases. Meanwhile, connected systems create holistic, 360-degree views of healthcare operations, giving administrators data-driven insights to improve productivity.
However, healthcare data is a double-edged sword. For every benefit, there is a risk that inefficient, poorly protected systems will lead to negative patient or institutional outcomes.
You don’t want your medical software developers adding to these risks. But how do you know a vendor handles data properly? You don’t have the resources to audit every vendor’s IT infrastructure, much less its cybersecurity...