Cybersecurity in healthcare: A narrative review of trends, threats and ways forward.
By Lynne M. Coventry, Dawn Beverley Branley. Maturitas, 2018
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Electronic healthcare technology is prevalent around the world and creates huge potential to improve clinical outcomes and transform care delivery. However, there are increasing concerns relating to the security of healthcare data and devices. Increased connectivity to existing computer networks has exposed medical devices to new cybersecurity vulnerabilities. Healthcare is an attractive target for cybercrime for two fundamental reasons: it is a rich source of valuable data and its defences are weak. Cybersecurity breaches include stealing health information and ransomware attacks on hospitals, and could include attacks on implanted medical devices. Breaches can reduce patient trust, cripple health systems and threaten human life. Ultimately, cybersecurity is critical to patient safety, yet has historically been lax. New legislation and regulations are in place to facilitate change. This requires cybersecurity to become an integral part of patient safety. Changes are required to human behaviour, technology and processes as part of a holistic solution.
Subfields: Biomedical Engineering, Computer Networks and Communications
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Citations in the corpus
- Transformative Potential of AI in Healthcare: Definitions, Applications, and Navigating the Ethical Landscape and Public Perspectives (2024, background): “There are two crucial reasons why cybersecurity is imperative in modern healthcare: the digital storage of sensitive patient data, and the vulnerability of electronic systems to remote access by hackers due to inadequate defenses [139].”
- Explainable Artificial Intelligence Applications in Cyber Security: State-of-the-Art in Research (2022, background): “Breaches can undermine smart healthcare systems, erode patient trust, and endanger human life [230].”