{"id":282425,"date":"2018-10-01T01:50:06","date_gmt":"2018-10-01T01:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2018\/10\/01\/how-to-hack-any-hospital-computer-use-the\/"},"modified":"2018-10-01T01:50:06","modified_gmt":"2018-10-01T01:50:06","slug":"how-to-hack-any-hospital-computer-use-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2018\/10\/01\/how-to-hack-any-hospital-computer-use-the\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

softlyfiercely<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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pervocracy<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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dysgraphicprogrammer<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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pervocracy<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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How to hack any hospital computer<\/h2>\n

-Use the password taped to the monitor<\/p>\n

How to hack any hospital computer (L337 version for advanced security systems)<\/h2>\n

-Use the password taped to the back of the monitor<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

As a computer guy: This is what happens when you have too much security. It reaches a tipping point and then suddenly you have none.<\/p>\n

Security at the cost of convenience comes at the cost of security.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This is true of so many things in healthcare.\u00a0 Example: our software is designed to automatically alert the doctor if a patient\u2019s vital signs are critically out of range.\u00a0 If someone has a blood pressure of 200\/130, the doc gets a pop-up box that they have to acknowledge before doing anything else.\u00a0 It makes sense, in our setting.<\/p>\n

But then some mega-genius upstairs realized something: the system was only alerting for critical <\/i>vital signs, but not for all vital signs that could possibly be bad.\u00a0 Like, yeah, 200\/130 is potentially life-threatening, but 130\/90 is above ideal and can have negative effects on health.\u00a0 Should the doctors be allowed to just ignore <\/i>something that could negatively affect a patient\u2019s health?\u00a0 Heavens no!<\/p>\n

So now the system generates a pop-up for any vital signs that are even slightly abnormal.\u00a0 A pressure of 120\/80 (once considered textbook normal, now considered slightly high) will create the pop-up.\u00a0 We have increased our vigilance!<\/p>\n

Well, no, what we\u2019ve actually done is train doctors to click through a constant bombardment of pop-ups without looking.\u00a0 We\u2019ve destroyed <\/i>their vigilance and made it much easier for them to accidentally skim past life-threatening vital signs.<\/p>\n

But you can\u2019t tell that to management, because you\u2019d have to confess that you are a flawed human with limited attention resources.\u00a0 They\u2019d tell you\u00a0\u201cwell, all the other doctors take every <\/i>abnormal vital sign seriously, it sounds like you\u2019re being negligent.\u201d\u00a0 And if you\u2019re smart, you back down before you start telling the big boss all about your habit of ignoring critical safety alerts.<\/p>\n

The end result is exactly the same as if we had no alerts at all, except with more annoying clicking.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

this here is an absolutely fascinating overview of how and why this happens<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

softlyfiercely: pervocracy: dysgraphicprogrammer: pervocracy: How to hack any hospital computer -Use the password taped to the monitor How to hack any hospital computer (L337 version for advanced security systems) -Use the password taped to the back of the monitor As a computer guy: This is what happens when you have too much security. It reaches … <\/p>\n

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