Emergency Department Boarding: What the Evidence Shows
For every 82 admitted patients delayed 6 to 8 hours in the ED, one extra death follows. What research shows about emergency department boarding and what patients can do.
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Ransomware Raises In-Hospital Deaths by a Third. The Case That Made It Famous Was Investigated as a Homicide, and Cleared.
Among Medicare patients already admitted when a ransomware attack began, in-hospital mortality rose 34 to 38 per cent. The harm also spreads to hospitals that were never attacked — and the security remediation that follows a breach has a measurable cost of its own.
