Healthcare ransomware attacks cause patient deaths, health IT security experts say

Becker's Healthcare January 20, 2023
Giles Bruce

Healthcare ransomware attacks are causing patient deaths, according to a new survey of 579 cybersecurity professionals.

Here are seven things to know from the Jan. 18 study from the Ponemon Institute research group and cybersecurity firm Censinet, which surveyed IT experts from hospitals, health systems, physician groups and payers:

1. More than 1 in 5 respondents said ransomware attacks had an adverse impact on patient mortality rates.

2. Forty-five percent of those surveyed said ransomware events increased complications from medical procedures, up from 36 percent in a similar study from 2021.

3. About half (47 percent) said they experienced a ransomware attack in the past two years, an increase from 43 percent in...

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