Hospitals are increasingly reliant on networked technology to access patient records and run lifesaving medical equipment. Safeguarding these systems against cyberattacks requires constant vigilance. UC San Diego Health join computer scientists, engineers and graduate students as they unload multiple laptops and other computer equipment from giant black cases. The team is about to run a test deployment of one of their key projects, in several rooms within the UC San Diego School of Medicine Simulation Training Center.
The team can bring Project to hospitals that have been affected by ransomware and set up many of the same types of technologies that doctors and nurses are using to safely take care of patients, including electronic health records, radiology, and laboratory systems. The project has the potential to reduce hospital downtime from weeks or months to days or even hours, helping keep patients safer and saving the hospital from significant financial impacts. It could make our national health care system more resilient.
The development of Project is a testament to UC San Diego’s interdisciplinary research ecosystem, uniting experts from the health system, computer science and engineering toward a common goal.
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