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65 CIO / HEALTH IT What are hospital CIOs spending their cybersecurity budgets on? Medical devices, remote work safety & more By Jackie Drees A s the scale and frequency of cyber- attacks continues to increase in healthcare, hospitals and health sys- tems are tinkering their budgets and invest- ing in IT areas to ward off threats. ree hospital chief information security officers and CIOs shared with Becker's how they have adjusted their IT budgets for cy- bersecurity since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic and in what areas they are invest- ing the most. Editor's note: Responses have been lightly edit- ed for clarity and style. Howard Haile. Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer at SCL Health (Broomfield, Colo.): We have been focused for the past several years on transitioning se- curity to meet the needs of an increasingly remote workforce. Our focus will remain on increasing protection for our remote work- force through threat protection of cloud, mo- bile and identity solutions. We are increas- ingly expanding expertise through managed services, as well as investing in security AI technologies that can augment and reduce manual workload. Jeri Koester. CIO at Marshfield Clinic (Medford, Wis.): Given the current increase in hospital cyberattacks during and post-pan- demic, we have focused budgetary efforts in a few main areas. We have focused on medical device security management to actively elim- inate vulnerabilities to our medical devices. We have invested in multifactor authenti- cation, and we are focused on endpoint, de- tection and response solutions that capitalize automation and orchestration. Dennis Lee. CIO at Mountain Health Net- work (Huntington, W.Va.): We continue to increase our security spend for both prod- ucts and resources. Our board and executives continue to have their awareness elevated and seek to reduce our risk. We are also seeing our cyber liability insurance carrier increase its expectations on our overall security pro- gram and products. We have used this with our ongoing information security audits to prioritize our work efforts and spending. n UC San Diego CIO promoted to joint roles of CMO, chief digital officer: 6 details By Jackie Drees U niversity of California San Diego Health promoted Chris- topher Longhurst, MD, to the dual roles of CMO and chief digital officer, effective Oct. 1, according to a news release shared with Becker's. Six details: 1. Dr. Longhurst currently serves as UCSD Health's CIO and as- sociate CMO for quality and safety. 2. In addition to his new roles as CMO and chief digital officer, Dr. Longhurst also will serve as associate dean of UC San Diego School of Medicine. 3. As CMO, Dr. Longhurst will oversee UCSD's regulato- ry, patient and clinician experience, quality and safety, and medical affairs. 4. As the health system's digital chief, Dr. Longhurst already has overseen the launch of UCSD's new innovation center and the system's support of the statewide COVID-19 exposure notification system. 5. Before joining UCSD Health, Dr. Longhurst served as chief medical information officer for Palo Alto, Calif.-based Stanford Children's Health. 6. Dr. Longhurst received his medical degree and master's de- gree in medical informatics from UC Davis. He completed his residency at Stanford University in Palo Alto, Calif. n Epic looks to grow Twitter, social media presence with new user website By Jackie Drees A fter noticing its customers use Twitter "quite a lot," Epic is rolling out new ways to stay connected with its hospital and health system clients online, the Wisconsin State Journal reported Sept. 13. "As we grow as a company, social media is another piece of that," Barb Hernandez, Epic's public relations director, told the publication. "We noticed (Epic) customers use Twitter quite a lot." In August, Epic unveiled its website, epicshare.org, as a platform for hospitals and health system executives to share ideas for improving health IT at their respective or- ganizations and showcase tips and insights from compa- ny founder and CEO Judy Faulkner. The website features five main sections, including a "Hey Judy" spot that shares stories from Ms. Faulkner on her personal business philosophies and experiences from her career. Epic also created a Twitter account for epicshare.org, a first for the Verona, Wis.-based EHR giant, Leela Vaugn, a senior executive at Epic, told Wisconsin State Journal. n