Cybersecurity concept About 57percent of all medical practices in the country have fewer than 10doctors, and 15 percent are solo practitioners. Such practices havefew resources to devote to cybersecurity. (Image:Shutterstock)

Health care providers around the country are getting hit hard by cyberattacks that put at risk theprivacy of their patients as well as their ability to deliver coreservices.

In recent years there have been a number of prominent cases ofmajor hospitals getting hit by ransomware attacks, such asHollywood Presbyterian Medical Center, which in 2016 paidcybercriminals to gain back control of their computer system.

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