Becker's Healthcare October 20, 2020
Cybersecurity must be strengthened among hospitals and health systems now more than ever as health services increasingly move to remote and online formats, according to Josephine Wolff, PhD.
In an Oct. 17 op-ed for The New York Times, Dr. Wolff, an assistant cybersecurity policy professor at Medford, Mass.-based Tufts University, highlighted issues with hospital cybersecurity: “Hospital networks are notoriously insecure due to a combination of inadequate resources, a lack of clear and effective cybersecurity guidelines and the large number of people and systems involved in operating a hospital, all of whom need some degree of access to its network,” she wrote.
In addition to network inadequacies, Dr. Wolff also wrote that because hospitals rely on specialized equipment, such as ventilators...
Today's Sponsors
Today's Sponsor