HealthTech January 9, 2020
Organizations have boosted strategies and spending, but weaknesses remain.
The good news: Many IT leaders are taking action. The report, released last year, found that 38 percent of respondents plan to spend more to protect their devices, systems and infrastructure. Although all but 4 percent conduct some form of security risk assessment, 37 percent said they perform a comprehensive, end-to-end risk assessment — an 11 percent increase over 2018.
“From increasing the amounts allocated in IT budgets for cybersecurity activities to uniformity in security risk assessments, a growing wealth of cybersecurity resources are available for healthcare leadership to stay ahead of privacy and security threats,” Rod Piechowski, senior director of health information systems at HIMSS, said in a statement.
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