A worker puts the finishing touches on the new Quincy Valley Medical Center. Being brand new, the new QVMC has updated cybersecurity systems, but that’s not the case at all Critical Access or rural hospitals, according to the Microsoft Philanthropies organization. The organization has a program to help hospitals decrease their vulnerability to cyberattack.
March 22, 2025
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Microsoft working to help protect IT systems of rural hospitals
MOSES LAKE — Information is valuable in the Information Age, to good actors and bad actors alike. And unlike precious metals or stacks of cash, people sometimes don’t know how valuable information is, or that it can be vulnerable to attack. Erin Burchfield of Microsoft Philanthropies said rural hospitals are an example.