The number of attacks on U.S. hospitals each year doubled between 2016 and 2021, from 43 to 91, according to research published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Last year saw an even greater number of incidents, the American Hospital Association said.
When UVM Medical Center's computers went down, the impact on patient care was "significant," hospital President and COO Dr. Stephen Leffler, who was seeing patients as electronic communications went down, said. "This is not just a patient privacy issue," Josh Corman, a leading expert on cybersecurity and health care, told ABC News. "This is a patient safety issue."
Doctors in Washington, D.C., practice providing emergency care without access to hospital computer systems in the event a cyberattack takes them offline.Most hospitals still aren't adequately prepared to prevent and respond to the threat, experts say. Bigger hospitals generally have the resources to invest in cybersecurity, but smaller ones don't — particularly after the financial strain of the pandemic.
"It can happen to you – even when you think it's impossible," said Leffler of his message to other hospital administrators.
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