How Healthcare Organizations Can Enhance RPM Security, Resiliency

As the COVID-19 pandemic has continued to push patients away from in-person care, many health systems have ramped up their remote patient monitoring ecosystems.

But with that increase in endpoints comes an increase in security risks.

"From a security perspective, we always model a personal home network as a hostile network," said Stephanie Domas, executive vice president of the MedSec cybersecurity service. "I have to build it that way because I have no control over that network."

Teaching an organization's staff members not to click on suspicious links doesn't help, she said, when a medical device is connecting to an individual's network outside the system.

What seems to work well, she said, is having a separate workflow for medical devices, with medical-device cybersecurity having its own governance structure within a hospital.