The computer network system serving 3 hospitals in Brooklyn’s poorest neighborhoods — headed by a billionaire who is a mega donor to Gov. Kathy Hochul — has crashed and been off-line fo…
, Interfaith and Kingsbrook Jewish hospitals — part of the One Brooklyn Health System — have had to seek treatment at other hospitals amid the cybersecurity mess, which has left medical staffers unable to access patient records, sources told The Post.— is also a potential security risk for patients’ private data, said an industry source, who also blasted state officials for failing to immediately step in and organize a plan to fix the issue.
At the same time, the industry insider said, FDNY’s EMS service kept sending its ambulances to One Brooklyn hospitals because no one told them that One Brooklyn had an IT problem. One Brooklyn chief executive officer LaRay Brown, in a statement to The City, also gave scant details on the cause of the computer systems crash.
Cybersecurity attacks are a major problem for hospitals, which can bring an uptick in patient deaths as a result.Hochul attended a secret meeting in September at the Upper East Side townhouse of Alexander Rovt, who is chairman of the board of the One Brooklyn Health System. Cyberattacks against hospitals and other medical facilities are a major problem and often leads to increased patient death rates, according to a study published by the Ponemon Institute.
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