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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

Partnering with senior leadership at the hospital, we were able to roll out systems that kept us on the cutting edge of technology." This made constant communication and collaboration from our leadership team down to each work team and analyst vital." The COVID-19 pandemic did not slow down hackers.

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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.