In Conversation: Dr. Eric Liederman
CEO, CybersolutionsMD - on the scale of ransomware attacks against healthcare, their measurable harm to patient outcomes, the cybersecurity talent shortage, and AI's dual role in attack and defense
Among the leaders shaping how care and technology converge is Dr. Eric Liederman, CEO, CybersolutionsMD. In a wide-ranging conversation conducted by MobiHealthNews, Eric laid out a view of the industry that is both candid and immediately useful to the executives, clinicians, and builders who read HealthTech Cube.
The conversation
The scale of ransomware attacks against healthcare, their measurable harm to patient outcomes, the cybersecurity talent shortage, and AI's dual role in attack and defense.
“If this were a disease, it would be a pandemic.”
- Dr. Eric Liederman, in conversation with MobiHealthNews
Conversation highlights
The scale of ransomware attacks against healthcare
Their measurable harm to patient outcomes
The cybersecurity talent shortage
And AI's dual role in attack and defense
The bigger picture
The AI adoption question runs through every executive conversation in 2026. The evidence base is finally arriving: the largest controlled study of ambient documentation, published in JAMA, found clinicians saved 16 minutes of documentation time per day - but only a third of users hit the usage threshold for maximum benefit (our coverage). Meanwhile Rock Health has stopped labeling AI as a differentiator at all, because every company claims it - which is exactly why operating discipline of the kind described here separates winners from demo-ware.
The threat environment gives this discussion its urgency: healthcare suffered 410 ransomware attacks in H1 2026 - 2.3 per day, up 14% - with attacks on healthcare businesses and suppliers rising 35% (our coverage). Third-party risk is now the primary attack surface, and security-minded leadership of the kind described here is the difference between resilience and headline.
It is a conversation that rewards close reading by anyone building or buying in this market. At CybersolutionsMD, that thinking translates into daily decisions about where technology genuinely earns its place in care delivery, and where discipline matters more than novelty.
The HTC take
It is a perspective we expect to age well, and one that connects directly to the trends HealthTech Cube tracks across all eight of our coverage categories.