Major Threat to the Healthcare Industry
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What happens when a healthcare system is hit by a cyberattack? Hospitals sever connections to their online systems. As a result, electronic health records systems, patient portals (which enable patients to view their medical records and communicate with their providers), phone systems, and various systems used to order certain tests, procedures, and medications become unavailable. Non-emergent procedures, tests, and appointments are paused. Staff don’t have patient orders and can’t page doctors. Medical, nursing, and clinical teams have to utilize manual processes or documentation methods that they moved away from 20 years ago. Switching to paper records and processing everything by hand, are again in place for various clinical activities, such as dispensing medication, inputting health records, ordering, and completing diagnostic tests and procedures. It's a disaster you never want to face.
As a nurse in the emergency room at an Illinois Ascension hospital says, "we are doing three times the work, and it's taking double the time, not to mention critical patients who need to wait two to three times as long to get stat results for brain bleeds or blood clots. It is so unsafe; the staff is just so busy, overworked, and exhausted from dealing with rude patients. So many documents are going to go missing; everything is so disorganized it's unbelievable the amount of records that will go missing during this time. Now I'm going to work four times as hard, giving crappy patient care."
