American Hospital Association August 5, 2024
John Riggi, National Advisor for Cybersecurity and Risk, AHA

We all know by now that cyber risk is not just an “IT issue,” but rather it is an enterprise risk issue. Cyberattacks represent a potential risk to every function in health care organizations, making them a serious threat to patient care and safety. Cyberattacks, such as high-impact ransomware attacks, disrupt or delay patient care. They not only present a risk to patients who are in the hospital, but also to the entire community. Community members depend on the availability of their local hospital and emergency department for urgent care, such as in heart attack, stroke and trauma cases. The bottom line is that when hospitals are attacked, lives are threatened.

Ransomware attacks also have disruptive cascading and wide-ranging effects...

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