Few patients think about the potential security risks when they unwrap their shiny new fitness tracker or Bluetooth-enabled blood pressure monitor. A growing number of payers are offering incentives to patients who wear fitness trackers and achieve fitness goals. Providers are “prescribing” digital health tools with increasing frequency.
Yet, wearables and connected devices are quickly becoming healthcare’s biggest cyber vulnerabilities. A recent Forrester report indicated that in 2017 healthcare breaches will become as common as retail breaches, and more than 500,000 IoT devices will be compromised.
