Today we are sharing the Health Care Industry Cybersecurity (HCIC) Task Force's report on cybersecurity: Report on Improving Cybersecurity in the Health Care Industry.

They identified the following 6 key imperatives:
1. Define and streamline leadership, governance, and expectations for healthcare industry cybersecurity
2. Increase the security and resilience of medical devices and health IT
3. Develop the healthcare workforce capacity necessary to prioritize and ensure cybersecurity awareness and technical capabilities
4. Increase healthcare industry readiness through improved cybersecurity awareness and education
5. Identify mechanisms to protect research and development efforts and intellectual property from attacks or exposure
6. Improve information sharing of industry threats, risks and mitigation

Three Task Force members graciously sat down with us to explain and engage in a conversation about the key imperatives: Bradford Marsh, EVP Government Health Security & Technology at First Health Advisory, Theresa Meadows, CIO at Cook Children's and David Ting, Chief Technology Officer / Founder of Tausight.

Key Points:
What is the current state of the healthcare cyber landscape?
In healthcare we know that we don't have a good way to share information
We have issues with legacy technology
The attack surface has gotten a lot larger
What are some action plans that someone could take, post report, to begin to implement changes?
https://www.phe.gov/Preparedness/planning/CyberTF/Documents/report2017.pdf
https://healthsectorcouncil.org

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Today on Townhall Mark Weisman, CIO and CMIO at TidalHealth interviews Anurag Jindal, Executive Director Regional CMIO at Providence St. Joseph Health about his new role as a CMIO as well as the lessons and challenges that the role has brought forth in his first 90 days. Anurag brings forth a refreshing perspective in this episode, his mindset when taking on a new role is one to adopt. With his inspiring positivity, he answers the following types of questions: Who does he see as his support group in the new role? What advice would he give someone for their first 90 days as a CMIO? What has success looked like for him since he’s stepped into this role?

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Today on Townhall Jake Lancaster, Chief Medical Information Officer at Baptist Memorial Health Care interviews Dara Mize, Assistant Professor in Biomedical Informatics and Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center on the center’s clinical informatics fellowship program. Who can be a part of the fellowship? How does it differ from a traditional clinical fellowship? What are some next steps and challenges she is seeing for the fellowship?

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Drex DeFord, Executive Healthcare Strategist at CrowdStrike joins Bill on Newsday to talk about the economy, cyber labor issues and cyber liability insurance. We explore options for how a health IT leader can prepare for a down economy. While we have to brace ourselves for a slowdown in healthcare, agility will be essential. The Federal Reserve raised its benchmark interest rates three-quarters of a percentage point, its most aggressive hike since 1994. New research suggests nearly a third of cybersecurity professionals are planning to quit the industry, at a time when companies are struggling to protect their networks from attacks. How can healthcare or any system with confidential documentation survive with an impending catastrophe? Sophos observed that as healthcare ransomware attacks increase, organizations are struggling to obtain coveted cyber insurance policies. How is this survivable? How can we protect our servers and patients? Is self-insurance the only answer?

Key Points:
How does a health IT professional prepare for a down economy?
Have a good governance process and make sure you're being very thoughtful about the investments you're making
The cybersecurity skills crisis is about to get even worse
CrowdStrike - https://www.crowdstrike.com

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Today we have a special treat. Jonathan Manis, Senior VP and CIO for CHRISTUS Health walks us through his Opening Keynote “Re-Design Healthcare” presented at the Texas HIMSS conference. In this episode, it becomes utterly apparent that the healthcare industry needs a mind-shift. We delve into mobility, connectivity, consumerism and an alteration to “prediction and prevention” versus the “provision” of care to the sick and unwell. Healthcare can’t advance with a new approach until we stop using the old approach. How can we nix some of the complexity? Are customer experience expectations different across different countries? Healthcare consumers are stuck with what their insurance carriers’ want them to do. Will we ever break out of that model? How can we re-design healthcare?

Key Points:
In this digital hurricane world, healthcare is lagging way behind
Venture capitalists are not investing in the delivery of better healthcare. Venture capitalists are investing in better healthcare delivery.
I hate talking about innovation. We don't need innovation, we need adoption.
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