This appeared last week.OIG: 60 percent of hospitals reported unplanned EHR disruption - before rise of ransomwareThe Office of the Inspector General posted research from 2014 so there’s reason to believe the proliferation of cyberattacks and malware could create even more downtime. OIG recommended that hospitals institute and continuously update contingency plans. By Tom SullivanJuly 25, 2016 01:01 AMNearly 60 percent of hospitals have experienced an EHR outage. According to a new report from the Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General, in fact, 25 percent of those that have had EHR downtime said it delayed patient care. Put another way: 15 percent of hospitals have had a dysfunctional EHR negatively impact their ability to treat patients and 9 percent were forced to reroute patient care. What’s more, 20 percent of the outages lasted more than eight hours.OIG found that the top cause of EHR outages is attributable to hardware malfunctioning, internet...
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