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Pursuing Cyber Resiliency So Healthcare Can Weather the Worst Storms

Carley Thornell is a former Industry Marketing Strategist for Healthcare and Life Sciences at Akamai. She has a deep background in thought leadership in the technology space, including leading the content strategy and research team at one of the country’s leading electronic health records systems.

Anyone who watched the Apple TV show or read the Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative series “ Five Days at Memorial ” was likely shocked that a hospital in New Orleans didn’t have a hurricane preparedness plan. 

\r\n The result was a power failure, lack of potable water and food, botched care, and a poorly executed evacuation during 2005’s Hurricane Katrina that impacted hundreds of patients and providers — some fatally.…