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Cybersecurity in healthcare

Role this area should play in the mHealth space
Healthcare is often struggling with security challenges. Cybersecurity is the underlayer that supports remote delivery of health care services and consumer adoption of virtual health. Clinicians need greater flexibility and convenience in how they are able to connect with patients. Cloud capabilities on remote care, on how care teams communicate, collaborate, coordinate care, and on analytics generate insights that help improve patient outcomes and workflow effectiveness. Their availability on Microsoft Teams iOS or Android Mobile apps makes them even more relevant for mHealth.

Role this area should play in the mHealth space

Healthcare is often struggling with security challenges. Cybersecurity is the underlayer that supports remote delivery of health care services and consumer adoption of virtual health. Clinicians need greater flexibility and convenience in how they are able to connect with patients. Cloud capabilities on remote care, on how care teams communicate, collaborate, coordinate care, and on analytics generate insights that help improve patient outcomes and workflow effectiveness. Their availability on Microsoft Teams iOS or Android Mobile apps makes them even more relevant for mHealth.

Current challenges and limitations
Key concerns: High cost of digitization is a key barrier to cloud adoption in healthcare Ransomware, one of the healthcare sector’s biggest cybersecurity threats seen in 2020 through hackers taking advantage of a weakened workforce and difficult circumstances of the pandemics (more than $160 million spent by health sector on ransomware recovery in the last four years) Target of sensitive data by the hackers Resourcing issues when it comes to implementing cybersecurity controls Lack of enterprise forensics software and anomaly detection tools Lack of trust Inadequate security monitoring Data backups on the network Difficulty of clinical evaluation for cloud based solutions

Current challenges and limitations

Key concerns:

High cost of digitization is a key barrier to cloud adoption in healthcare
Ransomware, one of the healthcare sector’s biggest cybersecurity threats seen in 2020 through hackers taking advantage of a weakened workforce and difficult circumstances of the pandemics (more than $160 million spent by health sector on ransomware recovery in the last four years)
Target of sensitive data by the hackers
Resourcing issues when it comes to implementing cybersecurity controls
Lack of enterprise forensics software and anomaly detection tools
Lack of trust
Inadequate security monitoring
Data backups on the network
Difficulty of clinical evaluation for cloud based solutions

What benefit could this bring to adopters of this innovation?
Secured connectivity to digital health services, improved and reliable way to deliver health care to patients. Cloud computing in healthcare has huge potential for hosting healthcare services for telehealth and virtual care, medication adherence, personal data privacy and standardization of medical records, and for decreased time in data processing.

Examples

Using cloud technology in health care during the COVID-19 pandemic

Cybersecurity in healthcare

Approach or solution The COVID-19 pandemics with its imperious need of fast and remote deployment of solutions, data sharing of COVID-19 related information and integration of data analytics was a powerful incentive for adoption of cloud-based solutions. The benefits of cloud apps are on scaling up of services where demand is unknown (such as with… ...

Public Health Innovation through Cloud Adoption

Cybersecurity in healthcare

Approach or solution The article identifies the drivers and barriers of cloud adoption in healthcare in Japan, South Korea, and Singapore. These countries have increasingly moved their public services onto cloud and build nationwide cloud infrastructure. Cloud adoption have some advantages such as decreased time, costs of design and deployment of public services. It also… ...

Zero Trust security model for healthcare

Cybersecurity in healthcare

Approach or solution Zero Trust is an identity centric network security model where the user is authenticated first and then granted access to resources. The model is triggered by rise in mobility and use of iPhones, tablets, etc... and it requires mature infrastructure and processes: asset management, risk assessment for network and devices, logging, monitoring,… ...

Cybersecurity in the future of health

Cybersecurity in healthcare

Approach or solution The document identifies and describes six areas driving cybersecurity considerations in health: Agility, Ecosystem coordination, Devices, Data, AI, User Friendly. Cybersecurity and data privacy should be addressed from the initial phases of an Agile process of a health solution development. They should also become fully integrated, by design, in the piloting and… ...

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What is on the horizon?
The future of health is believed to be lots of devices, data and sharing. Radically interoperable data is needed to capture and share the data captured by the always-on sensors. Open and secure platforms will connect individual, population, environmental, and institutional data sets in real, and will aggregate, store, and drive insights powered by Cloud based analytical platforms from this data. This will empower the customer to engage more with the digital tools and will enable the development of prospective and predictive analysis adapted to the needs of the patients and citizens.

What is on the horizon?

The future of health is believed to be lots of devices, data and sharing. Radically interoperable data is needed to capture and share the data captured by the always-on sensors. Open and secure platforms will connect individual, population, environmental, and institutional data sets in real, and will aggregate, store, and drive insights powered by Cloud based analytical platforms from this data. This will empower the customer to engage more with the digital tools and will enable the development of prospective and predictive analysis adapted to the needs of the patients and citizens.

Keywords
Cybersecurity