Technical staff needs resources from management and may own/inherit a well-organized network or a complete clusterf*ck depending on the organization.
Management deploys resources to a level to not annoy owners / investors. This level is influenced by external forces, like regulation.
So regulators need to step their game way up, but are also time & resource-constrained. How do regulators pull the needed resources? Tax money.
How to justify tax money? Have a public that is informed of the danger and criticality of having hospitals operated in the way they are right now.
This is of course a big simplification, but the chain goes much further than just "IT that doesn't patch."
Nobody can claim not to know about the problem.
Technical staff needs resources from management and may own/inherit a well-organized network or a complete clusterf*ck depending on the organization.
Management deploys resources to a level to not annoy owners / investors. This level is influenced by external forces, like regulation.
So regulators need to step their game way up, but are also time & resource-constrained. How do regulators pull the needed resources? Tax money.
How to justify tax money? Have a public that is informed of the danger and criticality of having hospitals operated in the way they are right now.
This is of course a big simplification, but the chain goes much further than just "IT that doesn't patch."