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Healthcare Cybersecurity
on Life Support
Now this could raise your blood pressure.
By Troy Wilkinson
It has been a rough first quarter of 2018 for the healthcare industry when it comes to cybersecurity.
January kicked off with several high profile SamSam ransomware attacks on hospitals and EHR provider
Allscripts, bringing computer systems down and forcing hospitals and practices across the nation back
to pen and paper.
Last year was also a bad year for healthcare cybersecurity which saw a 211% increase in disclosed cyberse-
curity incident compared to 2016 and most of those incidents occurred because of failures to implement
cybersecurity best practices or addressing known vulnerabilities. Plus, re