The rollout of Cerner’s electronic health record in Veterans Affairs hospitals has been a high-profile struggle: outages, training troubles, and now, an alarming report showing it directly harmed scores of patients.
Roughly a half-million dollars was seized on behalf of healthcare providers that reportedly paid ransom to North Korean hackers, the U.S Department of Justice said.
If the past week’s steady stream of news stories regarding data exposure at hospitals is any indication, then it should be pretty clear that the healthcare industry faces its own set of serious challenges when it comes to keeping themselves secure.