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    Under pressure to digitize everything, hospitals are hackers’ biggest new target

    Under pressure to digitize everything, hospitals are hackers’ biggest new target

    This is another unintended consequence of Obamacare (a mandate to go e-records). It turns hospitals and insurers into big targets for cyber-criminals. To make matters worse hospitals tend to have abysmal cyber-security for many reasons. Crappy computer systems, lots of programs and devices to patch together, and a general lack of care to fund robust security.

    Why does this matter to us? If your identity is used to obtain health-care fraudulently you are much worse off than you are when it happens with a credit card or bank account.

    cyberattack on MedStar Health — one of the biggest health-care systems in the Washington region — is a foreboding sign that an industry racing to digitize patient records and services faces a new kind of security threat that it is ill-prepared to handle, security experts and hospital officials say.

    For years, hospitals and the health care industry have been focused onkeeping patient data from falling into the wrong hands. But the recent attacks at MedStar and other hospitals across the country highlight an even more frightening downside of security breaches: As hospitals have become dependent on electronic systems to coordinate care, communicate critical health data and avoid medication errors, patients’ well-being may also be at stake when hackers strike.


    Hospitals are used to chasing the latest medical innovations, but they are rapidly learning that caring for sick people also means protecting their medical records and technology systems against hackers. An industry that has traditionally spent a small fraction of its budget on cyberdefense is finding it must also teach doctors and nurses not to click on suspicious links and shore up its technical systems against hackers armed with an ever-evolving set of tools.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Peter1469 View Post
    Under pressure to digitize everything, hospitals are hackers’ biggest new target

    This is another unintended consequence of Obamacare (a mandate to go e-records). It turns hospitals and insurers into big targets for cyber-criminals. To make matters worse hospitals tend to have abysmal cyber-security for many reasons. Crappy computer systems, lots of programs and devices to patch together, and a general lack of care to fund robust security.

    Why does this matter to us? If your identity is used to obtain health-care fraudulently you are much worse off than you are when it happens with a credit card or bank account.



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    Obama's mandate is sound in its intention and its timing. We live in a digital age and the only way to keep a record for the life of a patient in the digital age is to digitize it. In addition to the ability to store the information there is also the ability to share the information. It opens up countless resources for the patient.

    With health care costs the way they are I don't have a lot of sympathy. I understand that hospitals aren't IT companies but neither are retailers and they have digitized completely, investing the money in both data analytics and IT infrastructure security. It's on them and instead of complaining the smart ones should beef up their security and advertise that as a value add over other hospitals.
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    because if obamacare had never passed, hospitals would never have digitized their records

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    Obamacare did mandate e-records, but the industry was going there anyway. They just don't spend money on security.
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