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Is this really a novel problem? Most treatmments have some risk associated with them, and a 1/1000 chance seems acceptable if the alternative is death or seriou
by moring 6y ago
Is this really a novel problem? Most treatmments have some risk associated with them, and a 1/1000 chance seems acceptable if the alternative is death or serious health consequences.
I think if the story went like "we treated the patient immediately, but she had a rare allergy which we couldn't look up in time because a ransomware attack took our network down", it would be much more of an everyday story.
- foolmeonce 6y agoIt's not novel that hospitals make these choices and review them. It's novel that one of a thousand ransom attacks on hospitals has resulted in the murder threat that makes a ransom attack on a hospital work better than on a hotel or school. We want medical data because not having it might play a role in our death. Assuming the hospital must have had a better triage response is like assuming authorities should have taken some murder threat seriously and stopped it. Maybe.. depends on frequency and other outcomes and doesn't really absolve the murderer either way.