Modern Healthcare September 22, 2018
For health systems, all internet-connected devices pose security risks. Those devices include internet-connected tools patients use in nonclinical environments, including in their homes, for remote patient monitoring.
If data are not sent securely from these devices to hospitals’ own systems, they could come in incorrectly. Or, in theory, hackers could sneak in on the coattails of the data, gaining access to entire networks through individual devices.
“In general, clinicians in the medical community are slow to realize how vulnerable we are,” said Dr. David Slotwiner, chair of the cardiology division at New York Presbyterian Queens. “We’re vulnerable because our systems are so interconnected and are so complex.”
To keep those systems safe, both the sending and receiving devices...
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