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Cyber security in the health and medicine sector: a study on available evidence of patient health consequences resulting from cyber incidents in healthcare settings

By August 21, 2024No Comments

This study reveals cyber vulnerabilities in the EU healthcare sector and further highlights the challenge of characterising cyber incidents in regard to their health consequences. Hurdles are a lack of consistent evaluation and reporting criteria and a lack of frameworks for assessing causality. We alert that such tools need to be developed in order to prepare for the rising risk of cyber incidents in an increasingly digitised healthcare environment.

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Ben Kemp