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Lessons From a Ransomware Attack: The Importance of Partnership & Collaboration

Healthcare IT Today

Now imagine that business is a hospital. The Bottom Line In 2019, the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) reported 467,361 complaints at a cost of $3.5 Within 12 hours, every piece of technology connected to that network, and every process needed to conduct daily operations, is paralyzed.

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Hospital IT leaders talk lessons learned from a tough pandemic year

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Eric Jimenez, CIO at Artesia General Hospital in Artesia, New Mexico. Dr. Paul Testa, chief medical information officer at NYU Langone Health in New York City. The greatest health IT learning of 2020 in the face of COVID-19 has been the profound want of patients and clinicians to connect digitally, said Testa of NYU Langone Health.

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Connected Medical Devices—the Next Target for Ransomware Attacks

Healthcare IT Today

A July 2019 FDA warning stated that an unauthorized party “could potentially connect wirelessly to a nearby MiniMed insulin pump and change the pump’s settings” harming the patient by either overdelivering or underdelivering insulin.