Show Notes

July 19, 2021: It’s Newsday with Drex DeFord and Bill. Rather than making a multimillion-dollar investment to deploy a new EHR, Woman's Hospital in Louisiana is seeking potential partners that would instead let the hospital connect to their Epic system. Dollar General hires a Chief Medical Officer. Jeff Costlow, deputy CISO at ExtraHop offers a comprehensive tip sheet to help ease the daunting task of talking cybersecurity with health system leadership. And what started as a surge in criminal activity during the early days of the pandemic has now developed into a full-blown crisis. Why does healthcare keep falling prey to ransomware and other cyberattacks?

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Key Points:

• If Dollar General do it right, they could ultimately impact long-term health for rural communities [00:16:35] 
• One of the mistakes people make when they go to a board is to take a posture of telling, but the board is really a collaborative group. They're on your side. They're inside. And they will help you to think through things. [00:25:10] 
• The electronic health record is a part of the expanding attack surface [00:31:45] 
• You need money to take care of unpatched systems and legacy devices [00:36:50] 
• Double extortion is real [00:44:20] 

Stories:

• Louisiana hospital skirts $200M Epic EHR implementation by seeking affiliation - Beckers
• Dollar General hires chief medical officer, boosts health-care items - CNBC
• A Tip Sheet to Help CISOs talk to the Board about Security Needs - Healthcare IT News
• Why Healthcare Keeps Falling Prey to Ransomware and Other Cyberattacks - Threat Post
• Leapfrog report highlights hospitals' patient communications, care transition shortcomings - Fierce Healthcare