Cybersecurity was a big theme at this year's HIMSS expo. Beckers' summary is nice.
On the one hand, everybody wants their healthcare organizations to act faster on cybersecurity. The drumbeat keeps getting louder, and everyone hopes they won't be the next to be in the news. Some analysts say the reputational cost of a breach can be ten times the size of initial fines over an uncomfortable period of years.
On the other hand, organizations of every size are having a hard time getting started. The number one reason? Budget. Security ROI arguments are famously hard to make, because what's the monetary value of something bad not happening, when it might not have happened anyway, for free? In the battle of abstract versus concrete, concrete always wins.