Radiology Business February 20, 2025
Imaging experts are sharing advice on how practices can contain damage stemming from future cyberattacks.
Radiologists with Harvard Medical School gave guidance to peers in a perspective piece published Tuesday in Academic Radiology. They used the July 2024 CrowdStrike incident—stemming from a faulty software update issued by the cybersecurity firm—as a springboard for their discussion.
Radiologists were reportedly forced to transcribe reports by hand and delay nonurgent cases during the nationwide IT outage.
“The scale, scope, and intensity of the Crowdstrike incident have led many observers to term it a ‘digital pandemic.’ Such a description may not be misplaced,” Vrushab Gowda, MD, JD, with Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, and co-authors wrote Feb. 18. “On an industrywide...
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