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Study Links Hospital Data Breaches to Higher Death Rates

Heart attack patients died at a higher rate in the months and years after a data breach at hospitals that experienced such attacks, a new study published in Health Service Research finds. So reports PBS.

Following data breaches, the hundreds of hospitals reviewed in the study encountered up to 36 more deaths per 10,000 heart attacks each year. Predictable security upgrades, such as stronger passwords and two-factor authentication, appear to be slowing down emergency medical professionals in cases of cardiac arrest, according to the study.

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