A recent article in DarkReading
offers a powerful argument as to why the health care sector desperately
needs to consider Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). In her piece Healthcare Suffers More Data Breaches Than Financial Services So Far This Year, Erika Chickowski cites a report
indicating that security breeches in health care appear to be on the
rise this year, with that sector reporting over three times more
security incidents than the financial services industry.
I worked for many years in a busy research hospital, and frankly this
statistic doesn’t surprise me; health care has all of the elements the
lead to the perfect storm of IT risk. If there is one sector that could
surely benefit from adopting SOA as a pretext to re-evaluate security as
a whole, it is health care.
