Chief Healthcare Executive April 5, 2022
As Chief Healthcare Executive continues our series on cybersecurity in healthcare, we look at the risk a breach poses to patients. Experts say hospitals must plan for providing care after an attack.
Cyberattacks pose a serious risk to patients, and hospitals need to develop plans to protect their patients when a breach occurs, experts say.
Christian Dameff, an emergency physician and assistant professor of emergency medicine at University of California San Diego, has studied cybersecurity extensively. He says health systems need to be talking more about the impacts of cyberattacks on patients and more research is needed.
“I am rather convinced there are more patient safety issues,” Dameff said. “They’re not coming to light.”
He’s not the only one that’s...
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