Telehealth on the rise at Veterans Affairs and in the private sector has one thing in common with every other digital service. It’s a cybersecurity risk. Now the National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence, part of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, is planning a healthcare project to establish best practices for security and privacy in telehealth situations. Here with more on the project, senior cyber engineer Ron Pulivarti joined the Federal Drive with Tom Temin…
Tom Temin: And what are the issues with telehealth as it stands now, I mean, we get on your, well, it could be just the telephone, or it could be a video conference type of situation on one of the platforms, a lot of medical practitioners have portals that they use and so on, what are the issues there?
Ron Pulivarti: So you have, especially with technology, you have beginner to advanced types of knowledge, right? So adopting a standard so that you could actually help someone that knows little to no basic forms of technology to someone that’s very advanced, to have a very neutral set. Because when you start thinking about the technology, and you start thinking about healthcare, there’s so many different ways to intercept. And there’s always bad actors every day. We watch the news we hear about on the radio, it’s a continuous flow of bad actors. So what we try to do based off of this specific project is really lean towards the experts to build and collaborate a strong team so that we can build these sample solutions to help the entire United States. I mean, that’s really our ultimate goal… Read the full interview here.
