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Introduction

The COVID-19 Pandemic changed healthcare information organization and delivery. Prior to the Pandemic, one estimation reported that in the year 2016 only 15.4 % of physicians in the US belonged to practices employing telemedicine for patient interaction and only 11.2% used telemedicine for interactions between healthcare professionals 1,2. Telemedicine techniques remained largely confined to larger practices and institutions while impacting a range of healthcare information practices including information delivery platforms such as video conferencing, and virtual visits, in addition to changing the storage and transfer of radiological and pharmaceutical data1,2,3,4. Many of these changes caused an increase in cybersecurity burden and fallout with costly consequences that may take years to be properly understood3,4,5.