Summary
Hospitals and other medical organisations are being hit by a rising number of cyberattacks; ransomware strikes on healthcare doubled annually between 2016 and 2021, according to a study published in December in the Journal of the American Medical Association. After a cyberattack, hospitals are forced to cancel procedures, reroute patients to other facilities and resort to pen-and-paper record-keeping. In this article, Wall Street Journal reporter James Rundle looks at how cyberattacks and a regulatory push are increasing the pressure on medical device manufacturers to improve the security of their products.
Medical device makers face push to protect their wares from hacks (Wall Street Journal, 13 February 2023)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/medical-device-makers-face-push-to-protect-their-wares-from-hacks-32e84445
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