Session Title:  How Secure Is Enough? Protecting Patients From Themselves.

Session Title: Why Is Healthcare Still So Bad at Cybersecurity?

Speaker: Christian Dameff

Description: Healthcare organizations are particularly vulnerable to and increasingly targeted by cyberattacks. These persistent and evolving threats put patient safety and care delivery at great risk, but it’s too costly, too disruptive to care delivery, and arguably impossible to eliminate every possible cyber risk. So, what is a healthcare organization to do? Noted physician, hacker and healthcare cybersecurity researcher, Dr. Christian Dameff, takes us on a journey that examines the challenging intersection of healthcare, patient safety, and cybersecurity, and offers a compelling vision for the future, one that balances a patient safety-focused culture with a complementary culture of cybersecurity resilience.

Edward Marx serves as the Chief Digital Officer for Tech Mahindra Health and Life Sciences. As CDO, he oversees digital strategy and execution for providers, payors, pharma and bio-tech. Edward is active on Boards, writing books and speaks globally as a Partner in Marx & Marx LLC. Edward was Chief Information Officer at Cleveland Clinic, an $11B health system with facilities in Florida, Nevada, Toronto, Abu Dhabi and London. His responsibilities included digital solutions and information technology. Prior to joining Cleveland Clinic, Edward served as CIO for The Advisory Board/NYC Health & Hospitals, Texas Health Resources and University Hospitals. Concurrent with his healthcare career, he served 15 years in the Army Reserve as a combat medic and combat engineer officer. Edward is a Fellow of the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives and Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society. He has won numerous awards, including HIMSS/CHIME 2013 CIO of the Year, and has been recognized by CIO and Computer World as one of the “Top 100 Leaders.” Becker’s named Marx as the 2015 “Top Healthcare IT Executive” and the 2016 “17 Most Influential People in Healthcare.” Edward is the author of 5 books including the 2019 healthcare bestseller “Voices of Innovation” and the 2020 bestseller “Healthcare Digital Transformation; How Consumerism, Technology and Pandemic are Accelerating the Future”. Ed is currently writing a book on “Patient Experience” from the perspectives of a cancer and heart attack survivor. Edward received his Bachelor of Science in psychology and a Master of Science in design, merchandising, and consumer sciences from Colorado State University. Edward is married to Simran and they have five children and four grandchildren. Both wellness fanatics, they love to exercise together and hike throughout the world. They co-wrote a book on passion in marriage to be released in 2022. Edward is a 7-year member of TeamUSA Triathlon and represents his country at championship events around the world.

Dr. Christian Dameff is an assistant professor of Emergency Medicine, Biomedical Informatics, and Computer Science (affiliate) at the University of California San Diego. At UCSD Health he was hired as the nation’s first Medical Director of Cyber Security. Published clinical works include post cardiac arrest care including therapeutic hypothermia, novel drug targets for acute myocardial infarction patients, ventricular fibrillation waveform analysis, cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) quality and optimization, dispatch assisted CPR, teletoxicology, clinical applications of wearables, and electronic health records. Dr. Dameff is also a hacker and security researcher interested in the intersection of healthcare, patient safety, and cybersecurity. He has spoken at some of the world’s most prominent Cyber Security forums including DEFCON, RSA, Blackhat, Derbycon, BSides, and is one of the cofounders of the CyberMed Summit, a novel multidisciplinary conference with emphasis on medical device and infrastructure cybersecurity. Published cybersecurity topics include hacking 911 systems, HL7 messaging vulnerabilities, and malware.