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Secure medical device data: A shared responsibility. Find out how hospitals & manufacturers can team up. Learn vital security practices now.

End-to-end data encryption capabilities help ensure that information collected by medical devices at a patient’s bedside can be securely transmitted downstream to other systems.

It’s important for healthcare organizations to consider which type of digital certificate will work best and be the most manageable to keep sensitive information safe.

Secure enterprise systems and frequently tested cybersecurity incident response plans can help healthcare providers minimize the impact of inevitable cyberattacks.

Edge computing allows you to create a secure “mini network” of a patient’s bedside medical devices, separate from the hospital’s main network. The edge computing device provides added security by controlling data exchange at the application level, rather than the network level.

In a survey of healthcare information security professionals taken before the pandemic, a majority of respondents acknowledged that their organizations experienced a significant security incident.