eHI July 13, 2022
Overview
Through the COVID-19 pandemic, cybersecurity threats to hospital systems rose 123% and ransomware, more specifically, affected more than 18 million patients records nationwide – a 470% increase from 2019. The same report found in 2020 alone, hackers pulled in more than $2.1 million in ransom. ECRI named cybersecurity attacks as the top health technology hazard to patient safety for 2022. The risk to patient lives have never been higher.
In Spring of 2022, a small group...