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Health IT pros warn of network vulnerabilities during ‘cyberwar’ – FierceHealthIT

It may not be hackers that present the greatest threat to EHR databases, but terrorist groups or rogue regimes, a hospital IT director told federal officials last week.

Skidmore said he imagines a malevolent cyber-attacker could, for example, delete notations that patients are allergic to penicillin, putting people at risk of a serious allergic reaction.

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