The Cybersecurity Implications of Telehealth: Safeguarding the New Normal of Virtual Care

Since the onset of the COVID-19 public health emergency, use of telehealth and remote patient monitoring has increased on a massive scale – with some health systems seeing the volume of virtual care visits increase by more than 4,000%.

But as providers rush to roll out new telehealth programs and scale up existing ones, there are some key privacy and security risk factors they must also manage. New technologies, new workflows and new responsibilities on both the patient and provider side all combine for a complex mix of data security challenges. 

In this webinar, the deputy director of NIST’s National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence, the chief information security officer of Sentara Healthcare and a UK-based physician and cybersecurity consultant will offer their unique perspectives on providers’ privacy and security responsibilities, now that telehealth and remote monitoring have become a fundamental new modes of care delivery.

Learning Objectives: 

• How to conduct an effective telehealth risk assessment
• How NIST’s Securing Telehealth Remote Patient Monitoring Ecosystem can help
• Frontline perspective from a major U.S. health system
• How evolving federal policies impact security compliance
• How patients and clinical staff should be educated about telehealth security