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The impact of cybersecurity on patient safety

In the TV show Mr. Robot, there’s a scene where the main character hacks his hospital’s computer system to change his drug test results from positive to negative.  Naturally, doing such a thing in real life isn’t as easy as the show makes it out to be. But it does touch upon a real problem in today’s healthcare system: Computer crimes can have real-world effects.
 

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