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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 11 2019, @12:38AM
It's not likely that password obnoxiousness is the cause of the problem.
It's more likely that the problem is caused by new systems replacing old ones, which cause the staff to be unfamiliar with them and thus less effective. Or possibly some systems that are deemed "insecure" stop existing at all, and staff has to do things manually/on paper/whatever.
But you're right that it would be nice to find out exactly what is causing the problem, instead of having to guess.