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Technology tamfitronics When hospitals are hit by cyberattacks that compromise crucial technology systems for managing patient care, the stakes are staggering.“We’ve started to think about these as public health issues and disasters on the scale of earthquakes or hurricanes,” said Jeff Tullya co-director of the Center for Healthcare Cybersecurity at the University of California at San Diego.Many hospitals are unprepared for long outages, cybersecurity experts say. And the federal government has offered little in the way of required protocols or standards to protect patient safety in attacks on the health sector, which have risen precipitously in recent years.Long-held concerns about protecting patients’ sensitive health information have been overtaken by fears of harm to patients themselves. Kate Wells and I dug into one of the latest and biggest examples for the news organization Michigan Public and...