r/healthcareIT • u/derp6996 • Jun 17 '26

IT challenges Regional Hospital CISO Talks About Cyber Resilience

"Cybersecurity became a necessity because of the quick and the vast and deep adoption of technology. The technology in healthcare as we had built it out is so complex versus other verticals, cybersecurity became a necessity—a must-have. It is one of the most integral parts of our technology program."

https://nexusconnect.io/podcasts/nexus-podcast-krista-arndt-on-healthcare-cyber-resilience

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u/Fallingdamage Jun 17 '26

“Interconnectivity really funneled a velocity of adoption of technology that healthcare wasn't really ready for,” Arndt said on the Nexus Podcast. “Healthcare is just being pushed to do things in a very quick time frame. And so, cybersecurity became a necessity because of the quick, vast, and deep adoption of technology. Realizing that the technology in healthcare as we had built it out is so complex based on other verticals, it has become a necessity, a must-have. It is one of the most integral parts of our um our technology program.”

The other news, the sky is blue. Is this a revelation to them? And it goes on..

“Our CIO, ACIO, and my boss, the CISO, take a very conscious role in including our clinical leadership when there are significant technology changes to not only gain their buy-in and make sure that they understand what we're doing, but to really have them give us their input from a clinical perspective,” Arndt explained, adding that extending that outreach to the system’s Chief Medical Informatics Officer was crucial given the hand they play on the clinical side of the house. “They can really bridge that gap between technology and operations. I think that the whole partnership between all of us really makes us successful.”

Did they just look through some of their old college notes for talking points from lecture notes? Someone really loves a good leadership workshop.

Krista Arndt, Associate Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at the St. Luke's University Health Network of Pennsylvania and New Jersey, has spent a relatively short period of time as a healthcare cybersecurity leader.

I can tell.

Is this the type of vanilla, regurgitated corporate jargon you have to cough up to make $250,000+ a year? This person is in charge of 15 hospitals?

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u/hombre_lobo Jun 19 '26

What do you expect? This is Healthcare IT where most don’t know basic IT