Cyber threats to the healthcare sector are a well-documented reality of modern healthcare delivery. Ransomware attacks against members of the ecosystem including hospitals, insurance providers, third-party service providers, and other healthcare delivery organizations (HDOs) routinely deny access to patient care, records, billing systems, and other digital technologies deployed throughout modern healthcare environments. Vulnerabilities discovered in the digital infrastructure relied upon by modern healthcare delivery organizations (HDOs) to deliver quality care pose patient safety and privacy risks that include delay or denial of treatment, data loss, manipulation or corruption of necessary treatment or other digital healthcare data, and the risk of intentionally or unintentionally tampered software, among other potential risks.
