Can data save health IT security?
September 8, 2017 Leave a comment
By Lloyd McCoy, DOD manager
The military’s next battlefield could be moving to a hospital bed.
With the growth of new technologies like the internet of things in health care, the security of health IT systems is becoming more at risk. Another challenge is that medical devices are already several years old by the time they’re in active use in the Military Health System.
So could better use of data and analytics help make these systems more secure?
The military health system has a wealth of data and health IT professionals need to harness it to create business and medical intelligence. We don’t need systems to tell us what already happened, but to predict how to best use and position our medical resources to cater to service members and their families.