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Breaches have increased 250% over the last five years and ransomware attacks have increased 280%, says Greg Garcia, executive director of the HSCC, Cybersecurity Working Group.
Science needs data, and the data used for clinical decision support models needs to be protected, says cybersecurity expert Richard Staynings, who is also a professor at the University of Denver.
There's been a shift in thinking from preparing for a physical disaster to being ready for any disruption, including cyberattacks, says Heather Costa, Mayo Clinic's director of Technology Resilience.
It's critical that health systems and organizations take an "all of us" approach to decision-making, says Eric Liederman, CEO of CybersolutionsMD and former National Leader of Privacy, Security and IT Infrastructure at Kaiser Permanente.
The Healthcare Cybersecurity Forum affirms reasons for those efforts, including saving lives and directing future initiatives, says Ian Mack, IT senior security analyst for the University of Virginia and HIMSS Virginia Chapter communications chair.
Vantiq's Sam Schifman talks about how the company's platform can assist clinicians in managing aging and chronically ill patients' care by "orchestrating" different systems to process and contextualize data in real time.