He's been on the The FBI's cyber most wanted list for quite a few years, and there's two stories I've included on this. Each of them, the coverage is a little bit different, but they're worth a read because there's a lot of great insight about the impact to patients and families and staff and the organization's finances, which took a 65 million hit.

The cyber dirtbags, however, continue to be Dirtbags. I include a story today about the long term fallout of cyber attacks on patients and families. In this case, data was exfiltrated during the attack and then used to contact the patient's family, asking for payment, or the patient's data was going to be released on the dark web.

And in this particular case, the patient was a child. And the reality is that a child's data might be worth more. More than an adult's data on the dark web, because if the cyber criminals can make the identity theft stick, the kid might not know anything about what's going on until they try to get their first credit card, and that's when they find out they've got bad credit, and that could be years later.

I like this next story because as I've traveled around the country the past couple of years, I've seen this kind of trending in real life. The article talks about how CISOs and CIOs are converging as CIOs roles continue to sort of move toward digital innovation and CISOs roles continue to grow from mostly compliance to deep diving into business operations in an effort to better understand how to stop breaches that seem to be an inevitable part of digital innovation.

Over time, I'll tell you, I've seen more and more CISOs Also take over the chief technology officer role in health care and, um, the ones that are real problem solvers and the ones that are real innovators. I'm not surprised at all when they move into the CIO seat or even eventually. Take the CEO seat one day.

I'm in overtime, but just one more. I know a lot of you are putting chatbots online to communicate with patients, but this story is about a chatbot gone wrong. And it's definitely worth reading and sharing because even though this isn't specifically a healthcare story, the possibility of a chatbot misleading customers definitely is a lesson I'd rather we learn from another industry and not our own.

I drop all these stories and a bunch more at thisweekhealth. com slash news. Go there and read and learn and share. You can even become a contributor to the site. Just click the button at the top of the page. You want to know more about what I'm working on? Well, for one thing, I'm headed to Vive in LA next week, and I'd love to catch up in person.

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Uh, that's today's two and a half minute drill. Stay a little paranoid. I'll see you around campus.