Hospitals must do more to improve cybersecurity | HLTH Conference - Chief Healthcare Executive

Hospitals must do more to improve cybersecurity | HLTH Conference - Chief Healthcare Executive

Las Vegas - When Clearwater CEO Steve Cagle was asked if hospitals are improving their cybersecurity or if they still had a long road to go, he simply said, “Yes.”


“Making progress and still have a long way to go,” Cagle said.


Clearwater, a cybersecurity firm, works with the healthcare industry and other highly regulated industries. Clearwater recently acquired CynergisTek, another cybersecurity firm with expertise in healthcare.


Hospitals have suffered hundreds of cyberattacks in 2022, as hackers are targeting the healthcare industry. CommonSpirit Health, one of America’s largest hospital systems, said it was hit by a ransomware attack last month. Cybersecurity analysts say healthcare lags behind other industries in terms of bolstering their defenses. Two out of three healthcare IT professionals (67%) said their organizations had a significant cybersecurity incident in the past 12 months, according to the HIMSS 2021 cybersecurity survey.


In an interview with Chief Healthcare Executive at the HLTH Conference this week, Cagle said hospitals need to view cybersecurity as a continuing process.


“Unfortunately, there’s probably not a finish line per se, because it will continue to get more complex as time goes on,” Cagle said.


“As a health system buys a new business or implements new technologies, threat actors are becoming more sophisticated and they’re changing their approach and their techniques,” he continued. “It’s an ongoing process, and one that I think healthcare is definitely getting better at. But it’s becoming more and more difficult to be at the level that you need to be in order to be at a risk level that’s ..

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