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How the Healthcare Industry Can Fight Rising Cyber-Attacks
The healthcare industry is facing an alarming proliferation of cyber perils. Hospitals and other facilities and healthcare-related businesses are under cyber-attack 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year. Why? Because our healthcare system is a "soft target," and particularly vulnerable because of its lifesaving work, where time is of the essence. It's a recipe for disaster from a cybersecurity standpoint.
The dangers to the healthcare system are clear in the statistics. According to the Journal of the American Medical Association, in 2018, the number of annual healthcare data breaches surged 70% over the previous seven years. In 2017 alone, there were over 500 healthcare industry data breaches, leading to the loss of over 15 million patient records. The start of 2019 has even been worse. Healthitsecurity.com estimates that in just the first six months of this year, over 25 million patient records have been breached and stolen.
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