Why Hospitals Keep Getting Hacked
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🗓️ 26 May 2024
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Last year saw a record number of healthcare hacks with more than 700 separate incidents. And with a subsidiary of United Healthcare forking over a $22 billion ransom this year, the problem isn’t going away. With so much sensitive personal information on file, why aren’t hospitals and their ilk better prepared?
Guest:
Dina Carlisle, president of the local nurses union, OPEIU 40 in Michigan.
Justin Sherman, CEO of Global Cyber Strategies.
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| 0:30.1 | On Wednesday, May 8th, Nurse Dina Carlisle got an email from her colleagues at Ascension |
| 0:34.6 | Providence Rochester Hospital in Rochester, Michigan. |
| 0:38.4 | They wanted her to know there'd been a cyber attack. |
| 0:42.1 | I had a very sick feeling. |
| 0:44.3 | Dina is president of the local nurses union OPE IU 40 which represents more than 300 |
| 0:51.2 | nurses at Providence, Rochester. |
| 0:53.4 | And suddenly, all those nurses were plunged back into the 1980s. |
| 0:57.8 | With no electronic charts or computer prescriptions, |
| 1:01.2 | they were writing things on paper and faxing them back and forth. |
| 1:05.1 | To have no electronic medical record is very sobering. |
| 1:10.3 | I mean my stomach flipped when I heard this. |
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