HIMSSCast: The latest cybersecurity challenges pose serious problems for healthcare systems

If there’s one thing CISOs and CIOs can count on, it’s that there will always be more cybersecurity challenges coming their way.

Tiffany Gallagher, partner and healthcare sector leader, and Prakash Venkata, partner and director, in PricewaterhouseCooper’s Cyber, Risk and Regulatory Practice, say there is increasing regulatory scrutiny, the growing number of professionals with access to systems and data, Lax cloud environments and large deal activity are growing challenges that security leaders in hospitals and healthcare systems must grapple with.

In this week’s HIMSSCast, Gallagher and Venkata offer listeners expert guidance on how to tackle these challenges.

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Discussion points:

• The healthcare industry is facing increased regulatory scrutiny, with federal and state regulators proposing new cybersecurity requirements, targets and guidelines to increase the industry’s resilience.

• The growing population of internal, contracted and external party access is complex and requires organizations to adopt modern identity technologies to address this problem.

• Many provider organizations allow development teams to create cloud environments without the appropriate level of control.

• Significant deal activity drives the need for better planning and execution of IT and security integration to effectively address cyber risks.

• Other challenges include third-party risk management and medical devices.

More about this episode:

Johns Hopkins CISO: Don’t forget the critical importance of foundational infrastructure

The proposed CISA rule would require reporting for cyber incidents and ransom payments

CMS clarifies HIPAA compliance rules for texting patient information

HHS provides cyber performance targets to healthcare systems

AHA backtracks on HHS’s proposal to penalize hospitals for cyber attacks

CISA, HHS and HSCC release a healthcare cybersecurity toolkit

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