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.