The cyberattack depicted in The Pitt wasn’t a Hollywood invention. It reflected the kind of disruption that has already played out across real healthcare organizations, and continues to expose how unprepared most health systems are when a cyber event becomes an operational crisis.
In this byline for Healthcare IT Today, Matt DeFrain, Managing Director of Arcova’s Healthcare, Pharma & Life Sciences practice, examines why the healthcare sector remains disproportionately vulnerable and explores the gap between awareness and action in cyber preparedness.
The piece also looks at how third-party dependencies and the rapid adoption of AI tools are expanding the attack surface in ways many organizations haven’t fully accounted for.