In 2021, a hospital in Illinois was hit by a cyber-attack. The attack crippled their computer systems for months, forcing them to delay procedures/care, prevented them for filing insurance claims and severely impacted other departments.

ChatGPT has lately been getting a lot of attention for its perceived ability to streamline work by being able to complete simple/mundane tasks. Workers have been using ChatGPT to help analyze reports, write communications such as blog posts, and even help identify bugs in code.

A lot of hospitals are in older buildings, with older wiring, and have thick masonry walls that make updating infrastructure both time consuming and expensive. It gets even worse if you manage an SPD that is in the basement of one of these older buildings, some dating back to the early 1900’s.