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Cybersecurity news for hospitals and health systems

Healthcare cybersecurity news covering breaches, ransomware and the hospital cyberattacks that shut down clinical operations. Becker's tracks how health systems detect, respond and spend to prevent the next one.

Hospitals and health systems whose providers use ChatGPT could be opening themselves up to HIPAA violations and lawsuits if they are not careful with patient data, two health policy experts wrote in JAMA.

Wilmington, Del.-based Henrietta Johnson Medical Center's EHR vendor, Delaware Health Net, suffered a cyber event that has compromised patients' protected health information at its organization. 

When I talk to healthcare industry leaders about cyber resiliency, I get a lot of affirmative head-nodding and positive feedback. And why not? Healthcare resiliency, in general, and in cybersecurity particularly, is a concept that is easy to get behind.

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Kronos, a time-keeping and human resources company now known as UKG, has paid $6 million to settle a December 2021 data breach lawsuit that affected multiple hospitals and health systems' payrolls, Top Class Actions reported July 5. 

As cybersecurity remains top of mind for health system IT leaders, here are the 10 largest healthcare data breaches so far in 2023 by the number of individuals affected, as reported July 5 by Chief Healthcare Executive.

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