George Pappas, CEO of Intraprise Health, joins Karen Jagoda, host of the Empowered Patient Podcast, to discuss the complex cybersecurity challenges in healthcare, largely due to outdated and diverse IT systems.
George explains, “The net situation is that these large technology companies that serve healthcare and hospital systems and large medical practices change are clearinghouses, revenue cycle managers, and manage real-time price transparency. What medication management companies manage is so complicated, and they have so many ways that something can be attacked. As you mentioned at the beginning, the attackers are getting very clever and sharing a lot of their methods, so you have to do a comprehensive continuous review of your entire cybersecurity posture. Because if you don’t, there are invariably going to be challenges and small things that are small at the time that end up not being small and being the way that an attacker got in.”
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