MedCity News September 4, 2024
Healthcare organizations should work proactively with experts in the relevant domains to recognize and mitigate potential cybersecurity risks. Here’s what to do to mitigate risk.
Ubiquitous criminal access to the internet means that stolen proprietary and confidential data is routinely misappropriated. Healthcare organizations can suffer devastating consequences, occasionally with irreparable repercussions, from ransomware or malware infecting company computer systems, and it can take years of expensive litigation to rectify these losses.
In addition to the by-now familiar forms of cyberattack that threaten healthcare professionals and practices, organizations face the potential for sanctions and penalties related to attacks, as well as risks from novel forms of security breach through artificial intelligence (AI) applications. Healthcare organizations can mitigate these risks through...