Ransomware
Encryption of clinical systems forces a return to paper and can disrupt care for an extended period.
Industries · Healthcare
Health systems where privacy is not optional.
Hospitals, clinics and health programmes depend on accurate records and constant availability. We build and secure them with patient privacy at the centre.
Sector context
The landscape.
Hospitals, clinics, laboratories and public health programmes depend on accurate records being available at the point of care. Downtime is not an inconvenience; it changes clinical decisions.
Health data is among the most sensitive personal data there is, and healthcare is a persistent target for ransomware precisely because providers cannot tolerate long outages. Many estates combine modern applications with medical devices and legacy systems that cannot easily be patched.
Effective health technology therefore balances three things: clinicians need fast, reliable access; patients need confidentiality and control; and the organisation needs to keep operating, safely, when something goes wrong.
Risks
What keeps leaders up at night.
Excessive access
Broad access to patient records without monitoring allows inappropriate viewing that is never detected.
Siloed records
Information held in separate departmental systems leads to repeated tests, transcription errors and incomplete histories.
Untested backups
Backups that have never been restored at scale may not meet the recovery time the organisation needs.
Unpatchable devices
Clinical devices running unsupported software sit on networks shared with general IT.
Regulation & standards
The rules we design for.
- Data-protection law
- Special-category protections for health data, including access controls, purpose limitation and patient rights.
- ISO 27799
- Guidance on applying information security controls to personal health information.
- HL7 FHIR
- An interoperability standard for exchanging clinical data between systems in a structured, consistent way.
- ISO/IEC 27001
- The management system within which health-specific controls operate.
How we help
Every practice, applied to your sector.
Build
Patient records, appointment and pharmacy systems built for clinicians.
Digital Products →Run
Highly available infrastructure with tested backups.
Cloud & Platforms →Secure
Health-data protection controls, ransomware readiness and response.
Cyber & Networks →Train
Practical security training for clinical and administrative staff.
Resolv Academy →Typical engagements
What working together looks like.
Patient record integration
Connecting departmental systems through a standards-based interface so clinicians see one record.
- 01Map clinical data flows and the systems that hold each record type
- 02Agree a FHIR-based integration model and the resources in scope
- 03Build and test integrations with clinical users in the loop
- 04Introduce access logging and review of patient-record access
- 05Roll out by department with fallback procedures in place
Ransomware readiness
Reducing the likelihood and impact of ransomware and proving that recovery works.
- 01Assess identity, endpoint, network segmentation and backup controls
- 02Segment clinical devices from general IT networks
- 03Implement immutable or offline backups and test full restoration
- 04Exercise the incident-response plan with clinical and executive leads
- 05Establish monitoring and response for the critical estate
Insights
Thinking for healthcare leaders.
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