Cybersecurity in Healthcare: Protecting vital data

With the advance of digital transformation in the healthcare sector, the incidence of cyberattacks perpetrated by hackers has been rising. A notable example was the WannaCry attack in 2017, which paralysed the systems of the National Health Service in the United Kingdom, causing estimated losses of around 137 million dollars. However, it is crucial to understand that these incidents are neither isolated cases nor limited to specific countries; rather, they are phenomena that affect the entire world.

In this webinar, Sebastián Passaro and Juan José Spinelli analyse the recent attacks that have affected the healthcare sector and caused growing concern, and offer key recommendations for strengthening cybersecurity. (It is recommended to enable subtitles).

These recommendations are also relevant to other critical processes that are moving towards digitalisation, such as internal patient coordination, resource management and operational monitoring. In the webinar on intrahospital transfers, K2BHealth discusses how technology can optimise this kind of process within healthcare facilities, keeping efficiency and quality of service at the centre.

In a scenario where clinical and operational information increasingly flows between platforms, teams and care areas, cybersecurity must be part of every healthcare organisation’s technology strategy. Hospital Information Systems (HIS) play a key role in this process, as they make it possible to centralise data, digitise processes and strengthen continuity of care with secure, scalable and integrated solutions.