Cyberattacks on Hospitals Compromise Care, Not Just Data

When Hospital Cyberattacks Compromise Care, Not Just Data - KFF Health News When hospitals are hit by cyberattacks that compromise crucial technology systems for managing patient care, the stakes are staggering. “We’ve started to think about these as public health issues and disasters on the scale of earthquakes or hurricanes,” said Jeff Tully, a co-director of the Center for Healthcare Cybersecurity at the University of California at […] khnerich KFF Health News

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Many hospitals are unprepared for long outages, cybersecurity experts say. And the federal government has offered little in the way of required protocols or standards to protect patient safety in attacks on the health sector, which have risen precipitously in recent years.

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