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Cybersecurity emerging as central topic at HIMSS

February 21, 2017
Health IT HIMSS Risk Management
#HIMSS17
By Roman Franklin, and Mitali Maheshwari, analysts with MD Buyline

Although health care in general has developed the reputation of being slow to adopt new technologies, cyberattacks and security threats have forced complete adaptation from the marketplace over the past few years. Moreover, industry consolidation and a push for everything digital has created a sort of perfect storm environment for cybercrime.

At the CIO roundtable at HIMSS 17, and in discussions with executives from McKesson and Phillips, we saw significant evidence that the industry is making every effort to acknowledge and develop solutions geared toward protecting hospital security breaches. This includes a substantial increase in quote activity submitted to MD Buyline for security software solutions, hospital inquiries, and an upsurge in education sessions here at HIMSS addressing cyber security and related issues.

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Emerging and growing threats surrounding health care information

Roman Franklin
One key area of vulnerability is associated with the push for free-flowing data. As part of providing a smooth patient experience, health care systems need their patient data to move seamlessly across platforms. An example where this becomes a risk is when the hospitals stream data to private care doctors. The smaller practices do not have near the security coverage that a hospital has, which creates a chasm of exposure for attack. Hospital systems are beginning to host the private care clinics in an effort to shore up the gap in coverage. However, many do not have the bandwidth or expertise to do so. The need for a safe, well-flowing ecosystem of data across many emerging platforms will continue to be a challenge in the current consolidation-heavy health care market.

Another potential lack of security is around cloud-based storage and virtual work platform transitions. In addition, the uptick in mobile device application usage creates more opportunities for infiltration. Along with the rapid rate of digital innovation health care manufacturers are exhibiting, the complexity and creativity of attackers has increased, and will continue to do so. For example: there was a Trojan version of the popular video game app Pokémon Go less than 72 hours after the release, which was downloaded 500,000 times and infected over 6,000 users' phones with malware.

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