U.S. hospitals appear to be under a new type of IT hacking attack: crypto-ransomware. Hackers have changed their approach and instead of stealing patient data, they are now locking down the computer systems of hospitals and asking for a ransom, in bitcoin, in order to allow hospitals to have access to their own computers. Multiple hospitals in California and Kentucky and Maryland have been the victim of such attacks over the last week and despite an FBI investigation into the MedStar hack, there seems to be no solution on the horizon.
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Niam Yaraghi is a fellow in the Brookings Institution's Center for Technology Innovation. He is an expert on economics of healthcare information technology with a focus on Health Information Exchange (HIE) systems. Niam's research examines the network externalities in the healthcare market and their effects on HIE adoption and usage. His research is currently focused on analyzing the outcomes of HIE use in reducing the costs and increasing the quality of healthcare services.
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