The Unseen Threat to Patient Privacy: Your Printers

  Jim LaRoe the CEO of Symphion, a software and services company specializing in print fleet cybersecurity for healthcare joins eHealth Radio and the Health Care & Health News Channels. Listen to interview with host Eric Michaels & guest Jim LaRoe discuss the following:

1. Let’s talk about the original mission you set out to achieve when you created Symphion. Could you share more about the industry challenge you saw a need to solve?
2. What has changed since that time and what has stayed the same in terms of the printers’ vulnerabilities within healthcare and the unseen threat to patient privacy?
3. Securing electronic health records and medical devices are seen as positive advancements in healthcare, but why are providers still overlooking the dangerous liability of printers when they are used frequently every day?
4. Could you illustrate some real-world scenarios of how print-related vulnerabilities can be exploited in healthcare?
5. Could you share more about the approach your team takes by offering cybersecurity services to print fleets?
6. You provide a solution for this challenge, but as an educator, why do you think it’s important to bring light to this issue and what do you recommend healthcare leaders do to address it? 

Jim LaRoe is Symphion’s dynamic leader with a special combination of skills, experience and insight that has driven Symphion’s success since inception to the world’s leader in print fleet cyber security. With a specialty in protecting the healthcare industry, Symphion’s focus has been on continual innovation, seamless delivery, affordability of its solutions and a dedication to excellence in customer service.  Website: https://symphion.com Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/symphion People also listened to this: An Innovative Approach to the Design and Production of Patient-matched Medical Implants