There’s a little bit of good news in the healthcare IT arena: CEOs and CIOs are quickly moving to make hiring chief information security officers a top priority.
The position, which has to somehow get a handle on privacy, compliance and traditional security issues, is in high demand as industry and government requirements increase for data sharing between patients and doctors, from hospital to hospital, with government agencies, labs and insurance companies. Add mobile devices to the mix, and the security/privacy/compliance headaches for CIOs are about to get more painful.
