MedPage Today December 29, 2022
— More than doubled from 2016 to 2021
Ransomware attacks on healthcare facilities, from hospitals to dental offices, have substantially increased in number and severity in recent years, according to a cohort study.
HHS data spanning 2016-2021 showed the annual number of ransomware attacks doubled (43 in 2016 to 91 in 2021) and the number of patients effected increased by more than 11-fold (from approximately 1.3 million in 2016 to more than 16.5 million in 2021), according to Hannah T. Neprash, PhD, of School of Public Health at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, and co-authors.
Moreover, these ransomware attacks also increasingly targeted large healthcare organizations with multiple facilities (mean annual marginal effect [ME] 0.08; 95% CI 0.05-0.10, PJAMA Health...
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