Healthcare is under attack. Healthcare organizations are prime targets for hackers due to the valuable protected health information (PHI) they store and the vital role they play in our nation's critical infrastructure. Indeed, 89 percent of healthcare organizations have experienced a data breach in the past two years and the sector was the leading industry for cyberattacks and data breaches in 2018. In 2019, the trend looks to continue with six hospitals and healthcare systems reporting large scale attacks in the month of July alone. However, what's even scarier, than losing the data, is the human impact of these breaches. A breach triggers remediation expenses, regulatory inquiries, litigations, which could disrupt and delay hospital services and lead to worse patient outcomes

 

In this episode, Marc Light (VP of Data & Research, BitSight) and Eric Johnson (Dean at Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management) will be discussing research conducted on the impact data breaches have on patient care and just how vulnerable the healthcare industry still is to cyber threats today.