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Brian Krebs summarizes a report about increased deaths due to Microsoft products, which have been implicated in several service outages at various hospitals. These outages have resulted in a measurable increase in fatality.
Researchers at Vanderbilt University's Owen Graduate School of Management took the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) list of healthcare data breaches and used it to drill down on data about patient mortality rates at more than 3,000 Medicare-certified hospitals, about 10 percent of which had experienced a data breach.
As PBS noted in its coverage of the Vanderbilt study, after data breaches as many as 36 additional deaths per 10,000 heart attacks occurred annually at the hundreds of hospitals examined.
The researchers found that for care centers that experienced a breach, it took an additional 2.7 minutes for suspected heart attack patients to receive an electrocardiogram.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by JoeMerchant on Sunday November 10 2019, @02:32PM (2 children)
How about the hospital response times during football playoffs and finals?
I know they've shown uptick in fatal heart attacks during games, and I've personally experienced a 4 hour ER wait time during a playoff game, mysteriously the waiting room started being seen very very quickly after New England went ahead by 8, deciding the game. At least they let us watch the game while waiting.
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(Score: 3, Touché) by canopic jug on Sunday November 10 2019, @03:02PM (1 child)
Which country are you referring to? The context matters so we know if you mean that 4 hours was a long wait or a short wait.
Money is not free speech. Elections should not be auctions.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 10 2019, @04:56PM
Sys Admins?