New England Journal addresses cyber threats

Companion pieces in Wednesday’s New England Journal of Medicine drew a frightening picture of an unsuspecting health system that is ripe for hacker poaching, in what’s believed to be the first time the respected medical journal has addressed the issue of health cybersecurity. Pieces by Dan Nigrin, assistant professor of pediatrics at Boston Children's Hospital, and Eric Perakslis, executive director of the Center for Biomedical Informatics at HMS, are cited.

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