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Special Cybersecurity Considerations for Medical

and Legal Practices

“Protect The Most Vulnerable at Their Most Vulnerable Times”

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By Jim Ford, Founder and CEO, PatientLock and JurisLock™

In the spring of 2018, my (then) pregnant wife and I went in for a 28-week sonogram of our twins. Like
most soon-to-be parents, we expected it to be a fun, exciting visit, and another opportunity to see our
babies in the womb. Little did we know it would turn out to be one of the scariest days of our lives.

Shortly into the exam, the sonographer looked troubled and quickly called a physician into the room,
where it was discovered that our daughter was in distress. Our daughter was no longer able to effectively
push blood back out through the placenta, causing her heart rate to continually decelerate. As a result,
the medical staff informed us that both of our kids needed to be delivered immediately and that only a
few hospitals in the area had NICU’s (neonatal intensive care units) capable of supporting them.

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