Why healthcare providers are losing the cybersecurity battle

[Reprinted from MedCity News]

It is time for medical organizations to re-assess the potential consequences of complacency, and equip their security teams with the resources they need to keep their staff, and ultimately their patients safe.

In 2019 experts red-flagged previously unforeseen levels of attacks on healthcare providers, with the US Department of Health and Human Services investigating more than 300 cases in 2019. Almost 32 million patients’ records were breached in the first half of the year alone, more than double the records breached in all of 2018. Read More

Ed Stephenson is the principal consultant at ECS International specializing in Caribbean healthcare issues. Learn more