Global

Ali Youssef, cybersecurity director at Henry Ford Health, relays why it is difficult for health systems to defend themselves from malicious actors and how institutions should prepare now for an inevitable cybersecurity breach.

Todd Gottula, president and cofounder of Clarify Health Solutions, discusses the importance of calculating and providing data intelligence to healthcare stakeholders to encourage adoption of AI and large language model insights.

Janice Reese, an advisory member of the HSCC Cybersecurity Working Group, highlights the importance of ensuring patient data is not siloed, but available across facilities, up-to-date and better secured.

Kevin Littlefield, principal of cybersecurity at MITRE, explains how home care may be susceptible to cybercriminals and how hospitals can ensure patient security as home-based care and RPM become more prevalent.

Renee Broadbent, CIO and information security officer at SoNE Healthcare, relays the ways her organization creates a culture of security, engages executive leadership in cybersecurity as cybercriminals get more sophisticated.

Erik Decker, Intermountain Health CISO and chair of the Health Sector Council's Cybersecurity Working Group, discusses the private sector and federal government task groups, and how the teams are learning to avoid malware attacks.

Healthcare organizations need to do everything possible to protect against breaches by outsiders and insiders, and prepare for recovery from a successful attack, says Dr. Eric Liederman, director of medical informatics at Kaiser Permanence.

Dr. Benoit Desjardins, professor at the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, tells where vulnerabilities exist with medical devices, what practices can do to protect patients and patient information and how AI can help with cybersecurity.

MITRE's chief digital health physician, Dr. Brian Anderson, discusses the necessity of cross-sector partnerships between developers, health systems and governments regarding emerging technology so innovation can inform regulations and vice-versa.

Thomas Hutchinson, executive director of digestive health and experiential reality, and neurosurgeon Dr. Robert Louis discuss utilizing VR and AR to evaluate a patient’s anatomy in 3D and implementing the tech as a preoperative tool.