Why would a hospital have to turn away ambulances if their computers don’t work? They have phones and radio…
Ransomware forces Texas hospital to turn away ambulances
Submitted 7 months ago by vegeta@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.theregister.com/2024/09/30/texan_hospital_ransomware/?td=rt-3a
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PostaL@lemmy.world 7 months ago
BURN@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Generally these computer systems do access control, patient charting, intake management and most other critical functions, just like the rest of the world.
Blood banks and controlled medicines are likely gated behind access controlled doors, and without either it could cause major impacts to the ability to save lives
TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee 7 months ago
The workforce is too adapted to suddenly go back to doing everything on paper without making serious mistakes.
That plus not being able to access data that may only be available digitally for the same reason
AsudoxDev@programming.dev 7 months ago
That is why you don’t use such operating systems in criticial systems.
Kalkaline@leminal.space 7 months ago
Damn, that’s going to be like 3 emails and a cyber security video for me.
njordomir@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Yup, with a minimum completion time of 1 hour for the video training and the policies you have to read afterwards. Also remember not to click the super obvious phishing emails that obviously came straight from your own IT department. :D