VP and CISO of Sentara Healthcare Dan Bowden says his team does a twice-weekly call to assess the cyberthreat landscape.
Mike Nelson, field CTO, digital trust at DigiCert, says health systems must plan their shift to quantum cryptography, since quantum computing will make current encryption algorithms obsolete.
But continuity, confidentiality and compliance aren't the only imperatives hospitals and health systems need to manage when IT systems are down and workflows are suddenly paper-based, says Rebecca Romine, health law shareholder at Polsinelli.
Recovery, downtime and disruption from IT outages cost some independent and senior care providers "tens of thousands of dollars per minute," lower staff morale and pose patient safety concerns, says healthcare IT security expert Danielle Morrison.
