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When all computers shut down: the clinical impact of a major cyber-attack on a general hospital.

Benyamine AbbouBoris KesselMerav Ben NatanRinat Gabbay-BenzivDikla Dahan ShrikiAnna OphirNimrod GoldschmidAdi KleinAriel RoguinMickey Dudkiewicz
Published in: Frontiers in digital health (2024)
The risk of ransomware cyberattacks is growing. Healthcare systems at all levels of the hospital should be aware of this threat and implement protocols should this catastrophic event occur. Careful evaluation of steady computer system recovery weekly enables vital hospital function, even under a major cyberattack. The restoration of EMR, laboratory systems, and imaging archiving modules was found to be the most significant factor that allowed the return to normal clinical hospital work.
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