Please Be A Bit More Careful With My Electronic Health Record

We are approaching the one year anniversary of the WannaCry incident that held many hospitals in the UK and the US for ransom. With a year under our belt, was WannaCry the wake-up call the healthcare industry needed to take better care of the systems and data they use to provide patient care? Or, do we still see a situation where our protected health information is less than its name defines; not protected?

If things aren't getting better, just how bad is it? What are we seeing across the healthcare ecosystem? What devices, systems, and databases are exposed to the Internet? What is the top threat vector? How does the supply chain play a significant role in the overall safety of patients in the healthcare ecosystem?

Elie Nasrallah, Director – Cyber Security Strategy at HITRUST, and Greg Young, Vice President Cybersecurity at Trend Micro, join ITSPmagazine's Sean Martin to describe some of the findings from their recently-published report: "Securing Connected Hospitals."

You may — or may not — be surprised by the findings.