How AI, IoT, and Cybersecurity are Transforming Healthcare

With great technology comes great risk; hospital administrators and staff have been coming to terms with this parallel for the last couple of years, as EHR, healthcare tech, and IT infrastructure improvements have flourished, while simultaneously cyberattacks and breaches have risen in the field. The rate of breaches is so high that, according to Julie Spitzer writing for Becker's Hospital Review, it's nearly exceeding the rate of one breach per day. "In fact, the Identity Theft Resource Center found the U.S. medical and healthcare sector experienced roughly 336 data breaches as of Nov. 29th, which represents 28% of the total 1,202 breaches," writes Spitzer. "That equates to 4.93 million records exposed, or 2.9% of the total 172 billion records that have been exposed so far in 2017." It's a predicament, to say the least, but it's not all bad.