Health care is not ready for the new era of AI-enabled cyberattacks

Summary: Hospitals are in big trouble because of new artificial intelligence (AI) hackers. Recently, cyberattacks have forced hospitals to close emergency rooms, turn away ambulances, and cancel important treatments like chemotherapy. Now, super-smart AI can find computer weaknesses and attack them in just a few hours. Big tech companies are getting early warnings to fix their systems, but hospitals are being left behind.

The main problem is that hospitals don't make their own software. When a weakness is found, they have to wait months for outside companies to create, test, and approve a fix. While the tech world moves at lightning speed, local hospitals and patients are stuck waiting. If we don't fix this, more patients will miss the life-saving care they need.

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