Comment on Cyberattack forces major US health care network to divert ambulances from hospitals
mansfield@lemmy.world 4 months ago
If a hospital can’t operate because some asshole was able to remotely hack it bad enough to basically shut it down, we might need to rethink how things are run.
Happened in Germany recently. They could continue to operate since everything is still backed up in paper, but everything went slower and new emergency patients couldn’t be accepted.
It is shocking that the digital level of the hospitals is still in the 70s.
It is about funding. The corners IT has to cut is because lack of money.
Also the amount of legacy operating system to keep hardware like scanners running is a lot. Medical devices are delivered with a workstation that never updates. It is hard to justify buying a new mri of 1.5 million when the accompanied workstation is outdated.
Sure you can vlan and firewall the hell out of it. But they still have a large attack surface.
The whole health care sector is capitalism and it should be government lead.
And also that many contracts to improve on IT are performed by the lowest bidder.
Fallenwout@lemmy.world 4 months ago
They can operate, just slower. Life threatening gets priority, the rest are diverted to nearby hospitals.
Think of when your gps shuts down. You can navigate by paper map, just slower and you need to pay more attention to avoid mistakes.
EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Some hospital networks just continue to operate slower to the detriment of their patients and just lie to everyone so that nobody finds out they were hacked.
GladiusB@lemmy.world 4 months ago
This also doesn’t just happen and is apparent. They probably spent way too much time trying to fix the problem before diverting to older ways while the problem is being diagnosed and fixed.