Too many healthcare organizations are focused on securing the wrong assets, leaving them vulnerable to cyberattacks and putting patients at risk, a new report from Independent Survey Evaluators claims.
When healthcare leaders focus primarily on protecting patient data, they often fail to address actual cybersecurity threats that directly affect patient health, the report said. So if an active medical device or electronic work order were infiltrated by cybercriminals, the patient could be directly affected. On the other hand, an electronic health record is secondary – it requires a provider to alter the data before it could potentially harm a patient.
