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What to Do When Cyber Attack Strikes the Emergency Department

By Jennifer Pugh, MD, MBA, FACEP; and Christian Dameff, MD, MS | on October 17, 2017 | 0 Comment
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Dr. DameffDr. Pugh is clinical assistant professor of emergency medicine at the Jacobs School of Medicine and associate chief of service in the department of emergency medicine at Erie County Medical Center, both in Buffalo, New York.

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Dr. PughDr. Dameff is a clinical informatics fellow at the The University of California, San Diego.

References

  1. Brandom R. UK hospitals hit with massive ransomware attack. The Verge website. Accessed Sept. 22, 2017.
  2. Perlroth N, Scott M, Frenkel S. Cyberattack hits Ukraine then spreads internationally. The New York Times website. Accessed Sept. 22, 2017.
  3. Sweeney E. 6 weeks after going back to pen and paper, Buffalo hospital CEO sees ransomware attack as a call to arms. FierceHealthcare website. Accessed Sept. 22, 2017.
  4. Davis HL. How ECMC got hacked by cyber extortionists—and how it’s recovering. The Buffalo News website. Accessed Sept. 22, 2017.

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Topics: AttackComputerCyberDisasterED Critical CareEmergency DepartmentEmergency PhysiciansErie County Medical CenterHackerMalwarePreparationSocial MediaSystems

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