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1. "Understanding that cybersecurity incidents can spread between neighboring healthcare facilities means recognizing the need for regional coordination, much like any other large-scale emergency or natural disaster," noted Dr. Christopher Longhurst, MD, clinical professor of medicine at UC San Diego School of Medicine and chief medical officer as well as chief digital officer at UC San Diego Health, who is also the senior author of the study.
   
   
2. "Realizing the need for regional cooperation in the same way that natural disasters and major emergencies affect more than one hospital— is a step towards recognizing that cybersecurity attacks can impact adjacent hospitals," explained Christopher Longhurst, MD. He is the senior author of the study; clinical professor of medicine at UC San Diego School of Medicine; as well as chief medical officer and chief digital officer at UC San Diego Health.
   
   
3. The examination found that neighboring hospitals to ransomware attacks may come to feel resource limitations from increases in patient volumes and ambulance arrivals — along with longer waiting room times, eloped patients before being seen by a clinician, increased length of patient stays and rising number of critically ill patients such as stroke victims.
   
   
4. The conclusion of the study's authors is that a regional disaster should be considered by the disruption of non-targeted hospitals within a community if targeted hospital cyberattacks are involved.
   
   
5. Christopher Longhurst, MD — the senior author of the study and clinical professor of medicine at UC San Diego School of Medicine, as well as chief medical officer and chief digital officer at UC San Diego Health — remarked that recognizing cybersecurity attacks' ripple effects between hospitals is akin to understanding why regional cooperation is needed in face of a natural disaster or any other major emergency.