Healthcare is suffering a crisis of trust right now - the challenges that security and privacy teams face often feel insurmountable.  While Artificial Intelligence (AI) and advanced analytics are often hailed as a technological panacea, the reality is that discussions of why these tools are valuable need to focus on how we can practically improve three key challenges today: disorganization, deleveraging, and demoralization.  Only through tangibly connecting AI to the real-world challenges and opportunities within healthcare will we ever move from buzzwords to results.

 

First, we address how healthcare cybersecurity professionals are left with disorganized signals from the insufficiently-sophisticated technologies they use in the defense of their institutions.  Second, we discuss the highly de-levered nature of the modern team, where security and privacy professionals are often stuck working on low-yield tasks.  Finally, we address the cultural demoralization that occurs when skilled professionals are culturally undervalued and not made a strategic priority.

 

Through applying a practical lens to these challenges, we see how advanced analytics can be used to fundamentally change this dynamic and empower a new frontier of cybersecurity technology in healthcare.