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Healthcare Sector Not Concerned With Privacy, Cybersecurity, Says ABI Research

Large majorities of healthcare respondents dismissed privacy, data protection and cybersecurity as concerns, said ABI Research in a Wednesday news release. The business tech survey of 455 U.S.-based companies found that 82 percent of healthcare respondents didn't rank privacy and…

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data protection as a concern, and 58 percent didn't rank cybersecurity. “Cybersecurity within the healthcare sector has been traditionally poor, at best,” said analyst Michela Menting: Most comply with laws but don't understand what "comprehensive, multi-layered cybersecurity implementation" involves. ABI said medical devices and hospital equipment are "highly vulnerable" to cyberattacks like WannaCry, which hindered the U.K. healthcare system (see 1705120055, 1705150008 and 1705160008). ABI said the online survey was done in February and March.