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Ransomware, Data Breaches at Hospitals Tied to Uptick in Fatal Heart Attacks

posted by Fnord666 on Sunday November 10 2019, @02:26PM   Printer-friendly
from the windows-tco dept.

canopic jug writes:

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.

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  • (Score: 0, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 10 2019, @03:15PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 10 2019, @03:15PM (#918607)

    What's the alternative? A bunch of racist, handicapped-hating, homosexual bathroom rapist incels with their open sores software? Making the tools available to allow women to learn computing and build their own operating systems free of charge just proves how much they hate women. Real men who have plenty of sex with women know that the best way get women involved in computing is to charge them hundreds of dollars per year for closed-source subscription-based compiler collections and operating systems.

    We should get Boeing involved in hospital information infrastructure. Their proven safety record in aerospace and cherry popping score will solve this problem.

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  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 10 2019, @03:29PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 10 2019, @03:29PM (#918611)

    What's the alternative? A bunch of racist, differently-abled-hating, homosexual bathroom rapist incels with their open sores software?

    There. FTFY, you insensitive clod! Your ableist bigotry is showing!

    Sheesh!

  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 10 2019, @04:46PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 10 2019, @04:46PM (#918627)

    -1 retarded

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 10 2019, @06:54PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 10 2019, @06:54PM (#918664)

      Nevertheless, the corporate media knows what to do.