Across the globe, organisations have been revaluating current strategies to ensure uninterrupted business continuity – and this is especially true for the healthcare industry. The need for available, real-time emergency services not just within hospitals, but also at remote locations is stronger than ever. To meet demands for rapid field diagnosis and testing, healthcare organisations must ensure their networks can keep up while remaining secure. Without a secure emergency deployment plan in place, these organisations will struggle to scale vital operation when faced with adversity.
The need to secure remote access in healthcare
For healthcare workers to appropriately respond to emergencies while ensuring business continuity, they must have seamless, secure access to centralised medical records and devices, no matter their location. When remote work is a factor, especially in locations where telemedicine is in place, it is a given fact that infrastructure, capacity and coverage requirements will vary from place to place. Solutions must be in place to ensure security, reliability, and manageability combined with consistent enterprise controls.
While establishing a consistent level of security across environments is critical, it can also be challenging to achieve. Most cybersecurity solutions are architected to secure a single environment, and struggle with expansion in terms of establishing and coordinating consistent policy enforcement across multiple sites. This is especially true for hybrid environments comprised of distributed clinics, hospitals, and doctor’s offices running across a variety of physical and virtual networks. For this reason,
Considerations for choosing the right solution
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