Medical Economics June 14, 2020
EHR implementations and numerous other interoperability initiatives have dominated health care industry technology agendas for nearly two decades. Although the resulting “connected landscape” has driven a treasure trove of operational efficiencies and patient care improvements, it also serves as host to the most lucrative attack surface across industry.
Put bluntly, for an increasingly sophisticated, global community of cybercriminals, health care pays — both figuratively and literally.
The cyberattack by the WannaCry ransomware cryptoworm in 2017 demonstrated this point. Clinical networking vulnerabilities and the consequences of a successful breach were exposed in dramatic fashion. Whether history will record WannaCry as the industry’s wake-up call already seems irrelevant, as health care networks continue to be compromised in an increasing number of ways...
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