Connected medical devices provide health systems with multiple benefits, but these connected devices can also expose health systems to a host of cybersecurity-related risks.
To better understand these risks and how health systems can leverage clinical asset informatics to address vulnerabilities, Becker’s Hospital Review spoke with two leaders from TRIMEDX about the value of clinical asset informatics:
• Scott Trevino, senior vice president, product management and solutions
• Betsy Wormet, vice president of product marketing
The rise and risks of connected devices in health systems
Increasingly, many of the medical devices used by hospitals and alternate sites of care are connected medical devices. These include connected MRIs, X-ray machines, CT scanners, monitoring and lab equipment and more.
However, when medical devices are connected to the internet via the hospital’s network, vulnerabilities can be exploited by hackers, putting these devices and their data at risk. “If a health system experiences a data breach,” Ms. Wormet said, “the average cost to the health system is about $7.1 million.” She also said that health systems typically don’t even realize…
