Hackers can even break into the hospital systems and change prescriptions. There have been numerous cases like this, including a hacker that prescribed deadly drugs to a nine-year old boy. Hackers that invade medical records will also steal the information to blackmail or harass the patients. With medical records being in cyberspace, hospitals and doctor offices must take desperate measures. First the hospitals must acknowledge this as a serious problem.
Many hospitals still have the most primitive security systems.
Many have inadequate password protection, and are vulnerable to viruses. This is an invite for all hackers to come in and destroy lives. The author closes by stressing the importance of securing the systems. That hospitals and doctors offices must improve their computer security systems because this is our lives they are holding. Over the years thousands of records have fallen into the wrong hands, and only now can we make sure that it does not happen again.