Fierce Health Technology July 30, 2021
Supply chain management is lagging well behind other areas of cybersecurity across the healthcare sector.
According to a recent industry report, less than a quarter of hospitals, accountable care organizations (ACOs) and other healthcare providers demonstrated acceptable conformance with established framework standards.
These grades were consistently low even among organizations that otherwise were well aligned with other components of the National Institute of Standards and Cybersecurity Framework (NIST CSF), healthcare cybersecurity firm CynergisTek wrote in its 2021 annual assessment of the healthcare industry’s security and privacy preparedness.
Provider organizations’ primary shortcoming in this area was their ability to validate whether their third-party suppliers and other partners are in line with their contractual security obligations, the firm wrote.
“Given the events...
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