Healthcare is now the most attacked industry in India, and mid-size hospitals are the softest targets. The good news: the basics stop the vast majority of incidents.
Start with access: role-based permissions, automatic session timeouts and immediate deactivation on staff exit. Then data: encryption at rest and in transit, daily off-site backups, and a tested restore drill every quarter. Finally the perimeter: MFA for remote access, patched operating systems and audit logs someone actually reviews.
A cloud HIMS shifts much of this burden to the vendor — ask yours for their ISO 27001 certificate, penetration test cadence and breach notification policy.