Healthcare's Cybersecurity Stakes Reach Alarming Levels

Today, healthcare faces many challenges in protecting patient information and meeting regulatory compliance expectations. While organizations have invested over the past decade in technology, many haven’t invested to fully implement and integrate security technology throughout their system and technology environment.

For many finance leaders, there’s a need to change the way they see cybersecurity, said Michael Ebert, partner at Guidehouse.

“Cybersecurity is too often viewed as an IT problem and placed inappropriately in that domain, instead of a compliance and patient engagement and safety domain,” Ebert said. “Cyber must be approached as a continuous journey needing consistent support, people, and IT investment.”

Read the feature story in HFMA Magazine