SC Media January 18, 2023
New reports by Fortified Health Security and the Ponemon Institute highlight the ongoing challenges facing healthcare cybersecurity. (Army)
Patient safety has become the driving force behind ongoing healthcare cybersecurity risk framing and as a risk metric for evaluating connected vendors. While reporting gaps limit precise calculations of those impacts, stakeholders are actively working to change that.
Two new reports spotlight ongoing challenges facing healthcare through a patient safety lens, both in retrospect and in the year ahead: Fortified Health Security’s 2023 Horizon Report and Ponemon Institute report on the impact of ransomware on patient safety.
The Ponemon report reaffirms that the number of healthcare data breaches didn’t change significantly last year, but the severity of each breach has steadily worsened....