Even if a hospital isn’t directly targeted by a cyberattack, it can still suffer the ramifications of one. For instance, if a hospital is breached and unable to operate, it needs to divert patients to other facilities. This can put increased strain on surrounding hospitals, impacting care delivery, causing delays and creating a patient safety risk. Or, a software vendor could be breached, taking down payment or billings systems the hospital relies on.

 The Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust (Royal Liverpool) says an implementation of secure access and collaboration software has substantially improved productivity, allowing clinicians to spend less time on authenticating to the system and more time with patients.  Following the implementation of a clinical portal that allows a single view of a patient's information aggregated from 200 disparate clinical and administration systems, Royal Liverpool required a single sign-on to enable users fast