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Physical access wouldn't seem so hard. Say you worked at the company company and wanted to get the files your boss has on your evaluation or something. Wait till they're on lunch, plug in a usb and pull them up.
I imagine patient records wouldn't be encrypted either
If computerised, they freaking well should be.
In general they'd be in a database with it's own accesss control to interfaces and the databases data store should be encrypted. In my country there are standards for all healthcare IT systems that would include encryption and secure message exchange between systems. If they breached those they'd be in trouble.
If your doctor has a paper file in a filing cabinet on premises, written in English, then yes. The security is only the physical locks, just like your hme pc.
Any respectable company with Windows would be using BitLocker - full disk encryption. It’s super easy to setup if your computer has TPM, fully transparent for the user in most cases.
My work macbook won't even let me mount an external storage device, but it doesn't seem to care about my nextcloud client running in the background. Sorry for my blasphemous behaviour my cyber security comrades 🫡🥺
such a "hack" would only work in a poorly written tv show
an unencrypted drive is like being able to look into a bank though a window, not ideal but things of value could/should/would still be in a safe or somewhere else completely
That's why you can't just boot from an usb