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Cyberattacks on healthcare entities aren’t just annoyances. Healthcare IT and security professionals who participated in a recent survey conducted by the Ponemon Institute said cyberattacks result in poor patient outcomes including delayed procedures, increased complications – and even a rise in mortality. “The key takeaway of this research is that there is a direct connection between a cyber event and an adverse patient outcome,” says Ryan Witt, a healthcare cybersecurity executive with Proofpoint, which sponsored…