Waterford Regional Hospital Clinical Director says cyber attack could result in diagnoses being wrong
The risk of a mistake in the health sector is ‘red hot’ because of the HSE cyber-attack.
That’s the warning from the Clinical Director of Waterford Regional Hospital.
Professor Rob Landers says the ransomware attack is having a worse impact on diagnosing patients than covid.
And he’s warning people could be given the wrong diagnosis as a result.
"It's like driving a car without safety belts and airbags.
"It will months recovering, not weeks, months recovering.
"Patients will have their operations delayed, will have their diagnoses delayed, and there is a risk their diagnoses will be wrong - and I'm sorry to say that, but that's a fact.
"We just don't have the safety systems in place to deliver safe diagnoses at the moment.
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