Yes, the OS and filesystems on our EHR servers were hacked and our data encrypted for ransom, but " no medical information was looked at or compromised "

On this blog I have an entire series of posts regarding EHR crashes that point out an absurd-on-its-face and, in fact, insulting boilerplate executive response to the EHR unavailability:"BUT patient care has not been compromised. " The posts can be accessed via the query linkhttp://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/search/label/Patient%20care%20has%20not%20been%20compromised.It seems I may need another, related indexing term when EHRs get hacked and ransomware is inserted:" BUT no information was looked at or compromised. "I ' ve seen this in various incarnations several times now. For instance, see my Feb. 18, 2016 post " Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center: Negligent hospital IT leaders allow hacker invasion that cripples EHRs, disrupts clinicians ... but patient safety and confidentiality not compromised " athttp://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2016/02/hollywood-presbyterian-medical-center.html and my March 29, 2016 post "Bad health IT at Medstar Health: FBI probing virus behind outage" athttp://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2016/03/bad-health-it-at-medstar-health-fbi.html.This type of statement suggests that thieves who are able to gain access at highly granular levels of a server ' s filesystem and OS in order to encrypt the contents and insert the ransomware are " honest thieves " who would not look at the PHI for purposes of identity theft, or even sadistically alter data for purposes of causing harm.  In other words, it ' s the executives reassuring the populace that the thie...
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