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This piece discusses the threat that cybersecurity attacks pose to patient safety, as well as ways to prepare and respond to attacks.
John Riggi is the national advisor for cybersecurity and risk at the American Hospital Association. Barbara Pelletreau is a former senior vice president of patient safety for a large healthcare organization. We spoke to them about the risks of cybersecurity to patient safety and how organizations can prepare and respond to cyberattacks.
Princeton, NJ: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation; January 2024.
Smyrna, GA: Patients for Patient Safety US; December 1, 2023.
Joan Stanley is the chief academic officer at the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN). We spoke to her about how undergraduate professional nursing education integrates the topic of patient safety into classroom and clinical instruction, and how this affects patient safety as a whole.
