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  Today in Health IT funding your cybersecurity program. My name is Bill Russell. I'm a former CIO for a 16 hospital system and creator of this week in Health, IT at channel dedicated to keeping health IT staff current and engaged. VMware has been con.

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A massive cyber attack May 1st cost Scripps Health 112.7 million through the end of June with lost revenue bearing most of the costs. The nonprofit San Diego based hospital system reported the impact during its second quarter earnings filed Tuesday. The attack led to a major disruption in patient care and forced providers to use paper records.

Scripps said at the time that its facilities remained open for care, but hasn't until now divulged the financial impact of the attack. Scripps restored all of its systems May 26th after hiring computer consulting and forensic firms to help investigate the attack and restore its systems. As of June 30th, we estimate the total loss revenue to be 91.6 million.

Scripps treats more than 700,000 patients annually. Through dedication of 2,600 affiliated physicians and more than 15,000 employees, among its five acute care hospital campuses, home healthcare services, and ambulatory care networks of physician offices, and 29 outpatient centers and clinics. Scripps also offers payer products and population health services through Scripps Accountable Care Organization, their A CO Scripps Health Plan.

And customize narrow network plans in collaboration with third party payers. Alright, so I would know that information. I would understand what it is in relation to the system that I would be representing. Then I would say this 30 days post ransomware attack, they lost a hundred million in revenue, recovered roughly 15 million from insurance.

the reputation damage was pretty significant. The trust in the administration has taken a blow. Every conversation about scripts comes back to, or starts with the ransomware event. Kind of hard to get your heart program noticed or your community benefit noticed when every conversation's around the ransomware event based on their size and our side, I would create an estimate.

I would estimate that. If we were to incur a ransomware event, the downtime cost the cost of lost revenue to us. Not even reputational risk, but the cost of lost revenue to us would be X amount. And then I would have this simple statement. I'd like to get 10% of that number in the next 18 months to shore up our cyber program to ensure that we don't have to go through this type of event because the loss is far greater.

Than just the revenue. That's my narrative. That's how I would be asking for money to shore up our system, and I definitely would be asking for money to shore up our system and I'd be spending some extra money right now on cybersecurity and specifically protecting against ransomware events. That's all for today.

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