It’s no secret cybersecurity is at the top of the priority list for healthcare CIOs and other C-suite executives. One of the latest wakeup calls occurred in late June when the Petya
computer virus attacked transcription-service provider Burlington, Massachusetts-based Nuance, a Scottsdale Institute Corporate Sponsor. Weeks later some health systems were still struggling to fix their physician transcription tools. As significant as the attack was – $2B Nuance derives half of its revenue from its healthcare and dictation business – it raised an even bigger specter: the security vulnerabilities of third-party and cloud-based software firms, which healthcare providers increasingly embrace to cut costs while keeping an
innovative IT edge.