Healthcare IT News November 26, 2020
A look at the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s preparedness for cyber-attacks with Dr Saif Abed, founding partner and director at AbedGraham, who will be moderating at the HIMSS & Health 2.0 Middle East Event.
Like the rest of the world during the pandemic, healthcare organisations in Saudi Arabia are no longer centralised, but are now spread across remote work settings, making them vulnerable to varied threats from unsuitable hardware and non-firewalled systems. This has been in tandem with Saudi Arabia’s national strategy for digital transformation that has incorporated five-year goals for which three executive plans were drawn from 2006 until 2022, with digital health as one of its core components. Although strategies have been put in place to launch and...