Medical Economics March 26, 2024
Michael Gray

How health care organizations can mitigate threats to data security

The effects of the Change Healthcare cyberattack have rippled through the health care sector over the past few months, leading to outages, payment delays, and even cancellation of patient appointments. Hospitals and other health care organizations are learning, sometimes the hard way, that their cyber resiliency needs to be improved.

The increasing complexities of modern health care make keeping critical IT systems up and running more crucial than ever. Considering the growing dependence of health systems on connected technology, coupled with the wide-ranging impact of cyber intrusions, health care must take cybersecurity seriously. Care for patients and critical functions and operations increasingly depend on interconnected IT systems.

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