Healthcare Innovation April 16, 2020
As the U.S. healthcare system has shifted rapidly into telehealth-based care delivery, as necessitated by COVID-19-related concerns, CynergisTek’s David Finn shares his perspectives on the cybersecurity implications involved
The very sudden and very dramatic shift into robust telehealth-based care delivery in U.S. healthcare was necessitated by the emergence this spring of the novel coronavirus, COVID-19. While some hospitals, medical groups, and health systems have been making progress in integrating telehealth strategies into their delivery of patient care, until very recently, many patient care organizations had not kicked their tele-delivery into high gear. But obviously, with infection control concerns suddenly becoming urgent and overwhelming, the leaders of patient care organizations nationwide have had to shift quite dramatically into the delivery of...