“… We need to enlist healthcare professionals in order to make the messaging effective and meaningful,” said Servio Medina, chief of the Defense Health Agency Cyber Security Division Policy Branch. “You’ve heard the term, ‘you should bake in cybersecurity’ – you’ve probably heard a cybersecurity person say that while [wagging their finger] … The contrapositive is equally true. If we don’t bake in healthcare professionals in cybersecurity, how do we expect cybersecurity to be effective for the healthcare professionals?”
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is taking a similar, if slightly different, approach to balancing security and mission.
“While it would be great to have the clinicians, physicians, and nurses inside the room, I think what you have to do is get the understanding that patient-first, or we like to say veterans-first, perspective includes cybersecurity and privacy,” said Paul Cunningham, CISO at VA. “If they’re not thinking about it, who is?”…” Read the full article here.
Source: Improving Fed Healthcare Cybersecurity Starts With Building Bigger Table – April 24, 2019. MeriTalk.
