Doctors see big cybersecurity risks, compliance as key for hospitals

Cybersecurity and healthcare IT are both burgeoning areas of business. Put them together and you have a volatile mix of emerging technologies, security and privacy risks, and regulatory requirements—but also a lot of opportunity for growth and improvements. It's no surprise that doctors and hospital administrators are concerned with security. The healthcare industry is a top target of cyber attacks (see the Anthem data breach), and it has highly sensitive information about large swaths of the population. A new survey from MedData Group in Topsfield, MA, shows that physicians have very different opinions about cyber threats as compared to administrators and health IT professionals.