ABSTRACT

HEALTHCARE

Healthcare is increasingly becoming a service-oriented ecosystem. This is based on solid market trends in the wearable industry, social needs of an ageing society and economic sustainability of the healthcare services.

The digital revolution of healthcare started several years ago with the introduction of informatics into hospitals. Nowadays, healthcare operators and patients’ worlds are definitely highly digitalized, modifying how healthcare operators and patients offer and use services respectively. Since a few years, healthcare is migrating to an ecosystem logic which consists in the evolution of the hospital, typically seen as a physical place of care, to a distributed network of services for patients, provided in home environments through different channels and technologies. Today’s most common style of living in the western-world is to blend working and private lives, largely using digital ecosystems in which personal and professional services coexists and exchange data. One of the most important challenges for healthcare is hence to evolve its services to match these new societal trends. Furthermore, Cybercriminals are adopting corporate best practices and establishing professional businesses in order to increase the efficiency of their attacks against enterprises and consumers. This also implies a major rethink of most of the security solutions adopted in the past years in healthcare.