Hospital & Healthcare Management June 8, 2024
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California hospitals went on to experience reduced emergency department visits as well as inpatient admissions for weeks post-ransomware attack, as per a study published in JAMA.

Notably, the emergency visits along with inpatient admissions went on to dip by over 8% at the targeted hospitals a week after the attack, and they went on to drop by over 16% in the second week.

Near it, the unattacked hospitals went on to experience elevated emergency department visits, thereby suggesting the consequences of such kinds of attacks happen to be much broader as compared to the targeted hospitals, say the researchers.

Ransomware, which happens to be a kind of malware that denies the user access to their data until a ransom gets...

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