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Battling Data Security Uncertainty to Excel in Patient Care
October 2022 by Stefan Spendrup, VP of Sales, Northern and Western Europe at SOTI
Digitisation and improved practices are arguably more important for the healthcare sector than any other. After all, the more efficient the sector is, the greater the patient care it can provide. The National Health Service (NHS) is at the beginning of its tech revolution – video conferences are now the norm and the NHS app has already been downloaded more than 22 million times.
Digital transformation is in full swing – SOTI’s A Critical Investment: Taking the Pulse of Technology in Healthcare report found that 77% of IT healthcare professionals have increased the number of tech solutions they use this year, but concerns still exist, specifically around security. In fact, 88% of IT healthcare professionals are worried about patient information being revealed, lost, accessed, stolen or inadequately backed up, with a further 45% of UK organisations having experienced a data breach since 2020.
With a duty of care to protect confidential patient records, this is something the industry must be cautious of as it continues its digital journey. Healthcare services must now face the transition to a digitised system by ensuring there is full confidence in the technologies deployed by their organisations. This can only be achieved with full transparency into how the systemic renovation works, as detailed below.
This byline will go on to discuss:
– Security breaches in healthcare sector and how they happened
– Scaling up with the right data in the right places
– How to make tech more secure within healthcare
– The roadmap to continuous systemic innovation
