Video details healthcare cybersecurity challenges

Editor's Note

"Why is healthcare cybersecurity so bad?"

This is the central question explored in a December 4 video from STAT health tech reporter Brittany Trang, who also wrote an article on the subject earlier this year. Brought into sharp focus by data exposures related to the recent attack on Change Healthcare, this issue has deep roots, Trang reveals, citing a 2009 push to digitize health records without sufficient regulations.

Other topics explored in the brief video include the impact of health system investment priorities, why certain organizations make good targets, and what government industry are doing and should do to improve healthcare cybersecurity.