The importance and understanding of cybersecurity threats and how to address these threats to protect patient safety

Summative Assignment 

Topic: The importance and understanding of cybersecurity threats and how to address these threats to protect patient safety. 

 Instructions: For this assignment, review at least 4-5 peer-reviewed articles that describe the application of analytics or machine learning in healthcare. The objective is to describe the articles and extract key lessons that could be applied to a business problem in cybersecurity threats/protection of patient safety. Focus on: 

– How the findings from the selected articles could inform a solution to your practical problem? 

– How these approaches enhance (presumptively) understanding of cybersecurity threats? 

– How to address these threats to protect patient safety? 

A synopsis of the article(s) you selected for review should include a description of the: 

– Topic

– Research question (if applicable)

– Setting 

– Data 

– Study design and methods (if applicable) 

– The key findings and implications 

Here are some of the resources I found. Feel free to find others: 

Cybersecurity in Hospitals: A Systematic, Organizational Perspective https://www.jmir.org/2018/5/e10059/ 

Cybersecurity data science: an overview from machine learning perspective https://journalofbigdata.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s40537-020-00318-5 

The Effects of Cyber-Security on Healthcare Industry https://www.researchgate.net/publication/318055080_The_Effects_of_Cyber-Security_on_Healthcare_Industry

6 Healthcare Cybersecurity, Operational Strategies For Successful CISOs https://healthitsecurity.com/features/6-healthcare-cybersecurity-operational-strategies-for-successful-cisos 

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