The cybersecurity workforce shortage is especially acute at hospitals and healthcare providers. Healthcare IT projects are being consumed with runaway EHR (electronic healthcare records) projects, says Bob Chaput. “Secondarily, healthcare leadership has been slow to prioritize and fund cyber programs” says Chaput, CEO at Clearwater Compliance. “Healthcare information is more visible than ever and more valuable than ever, and simultaneously more vulnerable than any other type of sensitive information,” he says. “As an industry we must move rapidly from treating the issue as a compliance issue and move to treating it as the patient safety issue it has become””]
Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/3143626/hospitals-lack-staff-needed-to-combat-cyber-attacks.html