Comment on Cyberattack forces major US health care network to divert ambulances from hospitals
Johanno@feddit.de 6 months agoHappened 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.
Fallenwout@lemmy.world 6 months ago
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 It is hard to justify buying a new mri of 1.5 million when the accompanied workstation is outdated.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.
Johanno@feddit.de 6 months ago
The whole health care sector is capitalism and it should be government lead.
OminousOrange@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
And also that many contracts to improve on IT are performed by the lowest bidder.