Armis Elevates Healthcare Cybersecurity with Enhanced Clinical Impact Scoring

Healthcare organizations require security solutions and risk management tools that are tailored to their unique needs. With attacks on the rise and the impacts becoming increasingly personal, a proactive approach to managing cyber risks must be framed from the patient’s perspective.

We’re excited to announce the arrival of our latest innovative enhancement, the Clinical Impact Score, an advanced feature of Armis Centrix™ for Medical Device Security designed to revolutionize how healthcare organizations evaluate, prioritize, and take action on cyber risks to protect the patient journey.

A New Perspective on Medical Cyber Risks

Imagine being able to immediately see the potential implications of device malfunction, disruption, or exploitation on your clinical processes and workflows. The Clinical Impact Score does just that. It presents a patient-first perspective beyond just a list of assets and vulnerabilities. It examines critical factors like FDA classifications, patient dependence, equipment class, and potential failure effects to assess the risks posed by medical devices.

This comprehensive scoring system provides a new approach to risk reduction in healthcare and enables providers to triage risks effectively and focus remediation efforts where they matter most.

Key Highlights of the Clinical Impact Score:

• Device Security Awareness: Incorporates FDA Device Class data for device safety context.
• Patient-Centric Information: Understand potential impact on patient services based on the frequency of interaction between devices and patients.
• Operational Impact: Assesses failure effects, such as patient harm or delayed procedures, to evaluate potential disruptions to care delivery based on the criticality of the device in the context of patient care.
• Contextualized Prioritization: Accelerate your response to the biggest risks to patient care based on their Clinical Impact Score with full clinical context and streamlined remediation.

Prioritizing Patient Safety – Key Use Cases of Clinical Risk Assessment

Save Hours of Manual Assessment

By integrating Clinical Impact Scoring into Armis Centrix™, we’re enabling organizations to minimize exposure to threats and cut manual alert handling by 80%, saving significant staff hours. Prioritizing remediation efforts on the assets most critical to maintaining patient safety helps bolster operational resilience throughout the entire organization.

Preempt Attacks, Protect Patient Safety

Proactive maintenance and mitigation efforts on the largest Clinical Impact risks can reduce medical device downtime, exposure to possible breaches, and improve patient care continuity, optimizing care workflows and upholding patient safety.

Prioritizing the Biggest Clinical Care Risks

With the Clinical Impact Score, healthcare organizations can visualize which assets present the highest risk to patient safety, cutting remediation times by over 50%. Whether preempting device malfunctions or guarding against sophisticated cyber threats, this precision ensures resources are allocated efficiently to prevent harm.

Collaboration Across IT Security and Biomedical Engineering

Improve care delivery and reduce operational bottlenecks with detailed contextual insights. Our platform empowers clinical engineering, IT, and security professionals to make confident, informed decisions that align with both operational needs, patient care and security mandates.

Better Risk Prioritization in Healthcare Keeps Patients Safe

Medical device risks are not all equal. Every risk should be correlated with its patient care context based on the unique environment in any given clinical facility. By providing this clinical risk context to cyber and clinical teams, we look optimistically to the future of healthcare cybersecurity. Tailored risk prioritization in healthcare will more proactively secure patient care and prevent the devastating impacts of downtime and disruptions caused by cyberattacks. After all, cybersecurity in healthcare is a patient safety initiative.

Discover the power of the Armis Centrix™ Clinical Impact Score today and see why analysts and our customers consistently recognize us for pushing the envelope to make cybersecurity more patient-centric. Begin your journey to transforming the way you manage risks in healthcare environments to proactively secure the patient journey.

Request a bespoke demo or join us for a live product demonstration webinar to view this feature and more of our healthcare security capabilities in action. Read the brochure for more details about the Clinical Impact Score and how it works.