Barriers to Better Healthcare Cybersecurity

We often say in healthcare that we need to learn from other industries. We try to do that as much as possible on this blog and this is one of those cases. HIPAAEx recently shared this image that illustrates many of the barriers that local governments face to better cybersecurity. Many of them are money issues like paying high prices cybersecurity salaries and hiring and training cybersecurity staff, but the largest barrier is lack of support. See the details below: Does this sound like some of the same issues that we have when it comes to barriers to effective cybersecurity in healthcare? It does to me. While healthcare does deal with these same challenges, I have to admit how drastic the change has been when it comes to support for cybersecurity efforts from healthcare leaders. It used to not even be an after thought. That’s still sadly true in many healthcare organizations. However, I’m seeing more and more healthcare organizations that have seen cybersecurity as a strategic priority. Healthcare organizations know the damage that’s caused when they have a massive breach occur that shouldn’t happen. They’re finally starting to wake up to this fact. Most are taking a two fold approach: how do I prevent a breach from occurring and what’s my process when a breach occurs? The problem with cybersecurity is that it’s never done. You can’t look at cybersecurity as a project that’s complete and now you can move on to something ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - Category: Information Technology Authors: Tags: Healthcare CIO HealthCare IT Healthcare IT Security HIPAA HIPAA General Healthcare Cybersecurity Source Type: blogs