Learnings From a National Cyberattack Digital Disaster During the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic in a Pediatric Emergency Medicine Department

• 2023

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• Fiona Leonard; Hugh O'Reilly; Carol Blackburn; Laura Melody; Dani Hall; Eleanor Ryan
PMID: 37357951DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/dmp.2023.86

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This study analyzed the impact of a national cyberattack in Ireland, May 2021 during the COVID-19 pandemic, looking at workflows and data quality. During the outage, patient experience times decreased, notably from registration to triage and from clinician review to discharge. Data quality imperfections went from 4.7% to 19.7% to 5.1%, before, during, and after the outage, respectively. The study highlights the need for hospitals to have plans for IT outages and suggests improvements in current systems and workflows to better handle future digital disasters while maintaining patient care efficiency.

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Hazards: Infectious Disease; Infrastructure Failure

Audiences: Emergency Managers; Public Health Professionals

Emergency Management Stage: Response

Collection: Disaster Research Literature Review

Keywords: Disasters; Ireland; Computer Security; Emergency Service, Hospital; Health Information Systems; Pandemics; Pediatric Emergency Medicine; COVID-19; SARS-CoV-2

Institutions: Technological University Dublin; Children's Health Ireland; Queen Mary University of London; University College Dublin

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