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since March 12, 2025
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A hospital cyberattack is not just a privacy problem, it is a care problem. When systems go down, patients get diverted, imaging slows, phones can fail, and entire communities feel the shockwave. That’s why I sat down with Scott Gee from the American Hospital Association (AHA), a former Secret Serv…

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A hospital can sound normal on the outside while everything critical is failing behind the scenes. When cyberattacks hit healthcare, the damage is measured in more than stolen data, it shows up as canceled visits, delayed procedures, and care teams forced to improvise while systems are taken offlin…
A hospital can survive bad press. It might even survive a tough quarter. What it can’t survive is a cyber event that shuts down care. That’s why we sit down with Dr. Dennis Leber, a longtime healthcare cybersecurity leader with a background in law enforcement and military service, to talk about wha…
A cyber event doesn’t feel “digital” when you’re the one on the gurney. We’re joined by Jack, who shares his story anonymously after being impacted as a patient during a hospital cyber incident while being treated for prostate cancer. He takes us from pre-surgery nerves to the uncomfortable reality…
A handwritten note on a doctor’s office door doesn’t sound like the start of a cybersecurity story until you realize the clinic can’t even tell you why they’re closed. I’m Dan Dotson, and I sit down with our second John Doe, who’s spent nearly two decades in healthcare cybersecurity, to unpack what…
The scariest words in a hospital shouldn’t be “systems are down,” but that’s exactly what John hears while he’s lying in a bed with crushing pain, fever, and doctors worried an infection could be moving toward sepsis. He came in expecting fast answers and coordinated care. Instead, he watches a mod…
A hospital can survive a lot, but it cannot treat patients when core clinical systems go dark. We sit down with Dr. Mark Yoffe, a physician who also thinks like a cybersecurity leader, to unpack what healthcare cyber risk really looks like from the bedside. As electronic health records replaced pap…
The scariest part of a healthcare cyberattack isn’t the headline. It’s the quiet moment a clinician realizes they can’t register a patient, scan a medication, verify a dose, or send a lab order and the waiting room is still filling up. We sit down with an anonymous frontline nurse we call Jane Doe…
In this episode of Cyber Survivor, host Dan Dotson speaks with Dr. Richard Hartnett, co-director of the Ohio Cyber Range Institute, about shifting cybersecurity from a compliance checkbox to a proactive, organization-wide business practice. They discuss the theory of persistent engagement, tailored…
What happens when a hospital’s voice system fails during a cyber event? Not just dropped calls—entire care workflows unravel. In this conversation with Eric Enos, CTO at LifePoint, we pull back the curtain on how modern care really runs and why resilience, not raw uptime, is the metric that matters…
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