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Cybersecurity Threats Top ECRI's 2018 Health Tech Hazards List

 
• By Sue Darcey

ECRI Institute's latest annual top-10 list of "health technology hazards" list names "ransomware and other cybersecurity threats" as the number-one hazard. In fact, several items on the 2018 list point to safety risks emanating from the "digital aspects" of patient care and hospital operations.

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The worst hazard posed by health care technology in 2018 is "ransomware and other cybersecurity threats to health-care delivery," according to ECRI Institute, a non-profit health-care services and research firm.

Each year, the group examines a list of generic hazards from use of medical technologies, examining the threats for severity, frequency, profile and widespread ability to impact patient care, among...

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