Cybersecurity in Healthcare: Ensuring Patient Safety and Data Privacy

All computer systems are vulnerable to cyberattacks, but healthcare systems are especially at risk due to the pervasive use of interconnected digital health systems for service delivery, insurance billing, pharmaceutical ordering, diagnostics test reporting, and telehealth. Medical device usage, remote patient monitoring, patient portals, and the increasing number of connected smart devices provide multiple entry points for cyber actors. Moreover, healthcare targets are ten times more valuable than financial targets because they can enable fraudulent billing.