How the generative AI boom changes healthcare cybersecurity
How the generative AI boom changes healthcare cybersecurity
Publish Date: 2026-02-12 12:34:00
Source Domain: www.healthcaredive.com
Generative artificial intelligence has exploded in the healthcare sector in recent years, driven by hopes the technology could take on a variety of tasks — from clinical documentation to data analysis — and lessen the industry’s long-standing workforce challenges.
At the same time, healthcare organizations often struggle to manage cybersecurity, burdened by frequent cyberattack attempts as the sector adopts more internet-connected tools.
AI products could be another target for cybercriminals. Meanwhile, hackers can use their own AI to launch cyberattacks. That should create new work and security disciplines for healthcare cyber teams, said Taylor Lehmann, a director of the office of the chief information security officer at Google Cloud.
Lehmann sat down with Healthcare Dive to discuss how the advent of generative AI tools will impact healthcare cybersecurity and what organizations need to do to prepare for an increasingly AI-augmented security workforce.
This interview has been edited for clarity and length.
HEALTHCARE DIVE: Would you say these generative AI tools are more ripe for attack than any other piece of tech hospitals use? Or is that just another vendor they have to consider when they’re thinking about cybersecurity?
Taylor Lehmann, a director of the office of the chief information security officer at Google Cloud
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TAYLOR LEHMANN: This is where I am concerned about the future. Today we’re talking with AI systems, tomorrow we’re watching AI systems do stuff — like the agentic push we’re still on the cusp of — so this answer might change a bit. But number one, it’s going to be very hard to detect when AI is wrong and whether that being wrong is due to it being manipulated by a nefarious actor.
Detecting wrongness is already a challenge. We’ve been working on this for years. No one’s been able to completely eliminate…
