Health Information Held Hostage

Abstract

Electronic medical records are increasingly vulnerable to hackers exploiting the consistent lack of cybersecurity expertise in hospitals. Since education in digital hygiene will likely never truly conquer the absent-minded nature of humankind, it could be worthwhile to implement the distributed system of InterPlanetary File System, reducing the incidence of patient records being held hostage by hackers, but possibly increasing the incidence of data breaches for informational gain only. 
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