Cybersecurity news for hospitals and health systems

Lubbock, Texas-based UMC Health System will add AI-enabled gun detection software to its existing security systems in order to protect its patients from gun violence. 

Henry Ford Health notified 168,000 patients that a phishing scheme, conducted by an unauthorized party, may have compromised their protected health information. 

Information from 162,500 patients was affected in a hacking incident at Chandler, Ariz.-based Phoenician Medical Center.

Generative artificial intelligence and large language models topped the list of emerging and prominent threats to the healthcare industry, a new report found.

Eighty-one percent of Americans inaccurately assume that all health data protected on digital health platforms are also protected under HIPAA, according to a July 13 report from ClearDATA, a healthcare-specific managed cloud, compliance and security services provider.

Ninety-five percent of surveyed patients worry that their medical records will be leaked in a data breach, according to a study from Health Gorilla, a health information network and interoperability provider.

Several hospitals and health systems across the U.S. are facing lawsuits regarding data breach incidents that involved patients' protected health information. 

Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare is facing a lawsuit for a recent data theft incident that affected 171 hospitals and health systems across the U.S. and may have breached information of about 11 million patients.

QuickBlox, a software development framework used in telemedicine and finance, was found to have several critical security flaws, according to a joint study from computer and network security research firms Check Point Research and Claroty Team82 published July 12.

Two Idaho Falls, Idaho-based hospitals and partnering clinics reported that a May 29 cyberattack on its computer systems led to 1,043 patients' protected health information to be compromised.