Open AccessHealth Information Held Hostage
Author(s) -
Jacek Orzylowski,
Katherine Fleshner
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
uwomj/medical journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2560-8274
pISSN - 0042-0336
DOI - 10.5206/uwomj.v87i2.1131
Subject(s) - hacker , paragraph , computer security , internet privacy , health records , computer science , medical emergency , business , political science , medicine , health care , world wide web , law
Electronic medical records are increasingly vulnerable to hackers exploiting the consistent lack of cybersecurity expertise in hospitals. Since education in digital hygiene will likely never truly conquer the absent-minded nature of humankind, it could be worthwhile to implement the distributed system of InterPlanetary File System, reducing the incidence of patient records being held hostage by hackers, but possibly increasing the incidence of data breaches for informational gain only.
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