Many industries have been hit by cyberattacks, and healthcare is not exempt. In an article for HealthTech, Josh Howell emphasises the importance of hospitals and health care infrastructures being properly prepared to face and recover from cyberattacks.
The “minimum viable hospital” thought experiment is an exercise in doing just that by “defining and prioritizing the barest subset of applications necessary to operate for a period of three to five weeks.”
Howell outlines the importance of why hospitals need to focus on cyber resilience and lays out the steps to building a minimum viable hospital, including identifying the systems indispensable to patient care, establishing low-tech crisis communications channels, conducting regular simulated cyberattacks, and more.
Read on to learn more.
