Cybersecurity and the blood supply: The vulnerabilities of the technological revolution

Affiliations

¹ Department of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
² Department of Pathology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, USA.
³ Carter BloodCare, Bedford, Texas, USA.
⁴ Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, USA.
⁵ Wing-Kwai and Alice Lee-Tsing Chung Transfusion Service, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA.
⁶ Department of Pathology, City of Hope National Medical Center, Irvine, California, USA.
⁷ Department of Pathology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA.
⁸ Department of Pathology, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, Florida, USA.
⁹ Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
¹⁰ Canadian Blood Services, Medical Affairs and Innovation, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Editorial

Jeremy W Jacobs et al. Am J Hematol. 2024 Dec.

. 2024 Dec;99(12):2258-2260.

doi: 10.1002/ajh.27479. Epub 2024 Sep 12.

¹ Department of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
² Department of Pathology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, USA.
³ Carter BloodCare, Bedford, Texas, USA.
⁴ Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, USA.
⁵ Wing-Kwai and Alice Lee-Tsing Chung Transfusion Service, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA.
⁶ Department of Pathology, City of Hope National Medical Center, Irvine, California, USA.
⁷ Department of Pathology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA.
⁸ Department of Pathology, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, Florida, USA.
⁹ Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
¹⁰ Canadian Blood Services, Medical Affairs and Innovation, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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