How Vail Health ensures consistent medical device security and firmware patching
12:06 PM Vail Health is a nonprofit community health system with locations in Eagle and Summit counties in Colorado. Vail Health offers a 56-bed hospital, 24/7 emergency care, a helipad, urgent care clinics, cancer care, breast centers, cardiovascular services, surgery, childbirth, physical therapy, internal medicine, endocrinology and more. THE PROBLEM The health system was facing a cybersecurity problem: inconsistent medical-device security software and firmware patching. "Devices and systems were left up to the manufacturers and maintenance vendors to patch and update, and this provided m...
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