Monday, October 7, 2024
Artificial Intelligence
Saturday, March 23, 2024
Cyber Security for Energy Sources
Sunday, February 18, 2024
Cyber vulnerability in Healthcare
According to a March 2023 article in LRV Health, "Joel Vengco started his thesis during the third year of <his> MD-PhD program ... the beginning of the end of his time in medical school, <transforming> his career path ... <to> using data to transform the healthcare industry." Dr. Vengko is focused on innovation, but he isn't ignoring cyber security.
So Marty Paslick, CIO of HCA, would have to admit that "attacks forced healthcare providers to adjust their workflows or interrupt services due to lockups of their computer systems." The Fierce article goes on to quote Mike Hamilton, CIO at Critical Insight, to the effect that the risk of attack is obviously “escalating, and that the tactics are changing....”
"Beyond the threat to patients’ lives, these incidents can have a lasting impact on the financial health of a provider organization." Proactive work is essential... inspiring eWISE focus to help... specifically in the domain of obsolete devices (which pose a large vulnerability unique to the healthcare industry).
Thursday, February 23, 2023
Protecting Health Data
A single hospital has tens-of-thousands of devices. The scope of that management challenge is truly daunting... even for organizations with a fairly standard array of devices, tracking "visitors" and staying up to date on patches for devices that practitioners WANT on the network is overwhelming. Let's get the obsolete devices OFF THE NETWORK... and the data that you can't easily place in your EHR can be stored securely in the cloud... ready for "fine grained" access when your employees, health partners and payor partners need it.
"Fine Grained" means only those authorized access can get to that data. We won't reinvent your Identity Management System(s)... instead we will leverage what you have! "How?" you ask. Send me an email (informally at pete.godston@gmail.com) or give me a call (826-200-0056) and we will walk you thru the 3-Domain Architecture implementation for your strategic cloud choice (yes, we can support AWS, Azure and Google Cloud, with consideration to Oracle Cloud in the event you are a Cerner customer today).
Thanks for reading! Hope to talk with you soon!
Thursday, May 26, 2022
What a year..
Personally, the most trying.. coping with this "pandemic," including being there for teenage daughters... but more substantially the loss of my father ... then within a week lost my long-standing companion, Cocoa, a Labrador Retriever (the last two completely unrelated to this pandemic furor).
Professionally, found myself marveling at the collective unwillingness (inability?) of many sectors to welcome intellectual honesty around cloud capability. I walked away from the enticing option of "check-box" certification (I have a Harvard MBA, for God's sake!) exams in favor of implementing the tech (just because your staff or new hire has a certification doesn't mean they can efficiently implement a solution appropriate for your environment)... yet in spite of very loud public whining about a scarcity of cloud implementation skills, no one I didn't have a personal relationship with five years ago was willing to meet to review findings.True, I'm not on any Gartner matrix. But doesn't everyone agree Gartner is a pay-to-play domain? Are we really okay with a model that favors India's Brahmin class over our own innovation (no, not just me... spent some time with a few engineering innovators who finally concluded "my baby is ugly" and left a brilliant solution to keep customers happy in another domain.