Becker’s Healthcare Podcast Balancing Innovation and Protection: The Future of Healthcare Cybersecurity
Nov 20, 2025
Anthony Locascio, CTO for Hospital Patient Monitoring at Philips, and Benjamin Millmann, Lead Clinical Informaticist at M Health Fairview, explore the pressing challenges in healthcare cybersecurity. They emphasize the inevitability of breaches and advocate for a shift from a prevention mindset to resilience in health systems. The duo highlights the importance of treating medical devices as IT assets and fostering partnerships between clinicians and vendors for enhanced security. Their insights offer a roadmap for balancing innovation with patient safety amid rising digital threats.
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Connected Devices Multiply Risk
- Connected medical devices massively expand the attack surface across health systems.
- Benjamin Millmann urges shifting mental models from pure prevention to building resilience for inevitable breaches.
Practice Realistic Downtime Drills
- Practice extended downtime scenarios, not just brief EHR outages.
- Benjamin Millmann recommends preparing staff for days or weeks without systems, communications, or normal workflows.
Patching Is Nonnegotiable
- Treat medical devices like any other networked IoT asset with patching and endpoint protection.
- Anthony Locascio says hospitals must add device OS and application patching to their routine IT practices.