Healthcare Finance News December 10, 2019
While the shift is necessary, the transition period will likely see hackers targeting newly vulnerable information, said Halamka.
BOSTON, Mass. – Healthcare is at the cusp of transformative change, and in few areas is this more manifest than in data security, with the next several years seeing the accelerated proliferation of aggregated data, machine learning, telemedicine and heath-enabled mobile devices. There’s great opportunity here, but also more risk, as hackers and malicious actors will have new targets in the war for data.
Delivering a keynote address at the Healthcare Security Forum in Boston on Tuesday, Dr. John Halamka, the newly-named president of the digital health initiative Mayo Clinic Platform, said more data is being used for more purposes by more...