Health IT Security November 17, 2021
Jill McKeon

IoT security incidents are increasingly common as more healthcare organizations rely on innovative connected health solutions.

Connected health enables quality care by means of telehealth, remote patient monitoring tools, wearable technology, and other digital tools, but it also presents the risk of IoT security incidents. Over 80 percent of healthcare organizations reported facing IoT security incidents in the past 18 months, a recent white paper from Medigate and CrowdStrike discovered.

As connected health adoption increases, healthcare organizations will be tasked with the responsibility of ensuring that technological innovations are considered from a cybersecurity perspective as well as a clinical perspective.

IoT devices can revolutionize patient care, but they also provide an expanded attack surface for bad actors, the white...

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