Risk Management

Helping practitioners improve patient outcomes through data dashboards also benefits employers with better risk mitigation strategies, says Melinda Wassell, chief health informatics officer at Work Healthy Australia.

Dr. John Halamka, newly named president of Mayo Clinic Platform, says the cloud, AI and IoT are changing cybersecurity priorities.

Darren Lacey, CISO at Johns Hopkins University and Johns Hopkins Medicine, says a more balanced security world includes vulnerability management that protects not only data, but also transactions and systems integrity.

Encryption brings a lot of value to the healthcare industry, but adoption has been a struggle, says Tim Reilly, COO and CFO at Zettaset.

Greg Besegai, regional director of RiskRecon, describes how his company helps healthcare organizations identify and focus on the mission-critical issues found in external systems.

Adam Kehler, principal consultant and healthcare practice lead at Online Business Systems, says frequent mandatory password changes are no longer the go-to answer for system security.

Sinikka Salo, leader of change with Finland's Permanent Secretary's Cabinet Ministry of Social Affairs and Health Government, says when it comes to using citizen data to improve health outcomes, trust and security are extremely important.

Hospital-vendor partnerships are being hampered by a lack of third-party cybersecurity standards, says Lorraine Bessmer, senior cybersecurity analyst at St. Luke's Health System.

IT security is a legacy word, says Brian Selfridge: "This isn't cybersecurity, this is risk."

Cylera Chief Security Strategist Richard Staynings says hospitals only have seconds to respond using defensive AI to recognize algorithm transformations taking place is suspected malware.