INDUSTRY WATCH
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Healthcare industry
increases innovation
and reduces costs
through IoT
Brandon Bekker, Managing Director at
Mimecast, Africa and the Middle East
and will have severe implications for
healthcare professionals in countries that
have data protection laws in place.
To prevent brand damage, fines, and
audits, healthcare organisations must
actively seek to identify and prevent PHI
from leaving the organisation without the
proper safeguards in place. However, this
can be a monumental task without the
right technology.
For email, Mimecast recently introduced
data loss prevention (DLP) capabilities that
can help address this challenge. Healthcare
organisations can scan, identify and take
action on emails containing PHI. These
actions include holding the message for
review, encrypting the content, applying
secure messaging between parties,
converting the files and more. As part of
the service, Mimecast can notify the sender,
recipient, and administrator of a message
flagged as containing PHI.
Ensuring that PHI does not leave the
organisation without the proper encryption
and safeguards is just as essential as
securing against external attackers.
Healthcare is the only industry where
employees are the predominant threat of
a breach.
The healthcare sector is at major risk. The
time is now for them to rethink cyber security
and implement strategies that make them
resilient and prepared for both internal and
external threats. n
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INTELLIGENTCIO
According to HPE Aruba, nearly 90% of early IoT
adopters have already suffered an IoT related
security breach. But the good news is, threats
to the healthcare sector can be combated with
good practice, Jose Vasco, Regional Director
MEMA at Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise
company, tells us.
W
hen it comes to healthcare,
six in 10 organisations are
already using IoT. Maybe
you’ve seen your nurse accessing your
x-ray data from their mobile device while
at your bedside? That’s IoT in action.
According to recent research carried
out by HPE Aruba, one of the biggest
benefit healthcare professionals have
experienced to date, is the ability to
use sensors to monitor and maintain
medical devices.
The use of IoT in healthcare is far more
than a gimmick. If every nurse could save
just five minutes on their daily shift, think
what that would mean for efficiency
gains, cost savings and overall quality
of care. If technology can make this
happen, it’s an absolute certainty that its
use will become more widespread.
Jose Vasco, Regional Director
MEMA at Aruba, a Hewlett Packard
Enterprise company
improved accessibility and capturing data
with greater accuracy than ever before.
Overcoming IoT threats
With these kinds of results being seen, it’s
no surprise to learn that IoT in healthcare
is growing. By 2019, 87% of healthcare
organisations will have adopted IoT
technology, but the risk of security remains a
barrier that must be overcome.
Opportunities to innovate
Healthcare is one of the richest areas
of opportunity for IoT. IoT device can
reduce costs in the healthcare industry
by providing lower cost alternatives
to traditionally expensive devices;
connecting devices to networks for
According to HPE Aruba, 89% of
early IoT adopters have already
suffered an IoT related security breach.
To prevent security fears casting to big a
shadow over IoT growth and innovation,
threats from malware and human error
must be neutralised.
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