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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.

Medtech company Siemens Healthineers is partnering with Claroty, a company that helps healthcare providers secure cyber-physical systems, to launch a new cybersecurity platform for hospitals.

Trinity Health, based in Livonia, Mich., is facing a class-action lawsuit for a March data breach that compromised the protected health information of 21,000 patients. 

The most hacked password in the U.S. in 2023 so far is "password," according to a report from SafetyDetectives.

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More than 25,000 Pittsburgh-based UPMC patients are being notified that some of their protected health information may have been compromised due to a breach that occurred at its billing and collection services provider, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported June 13.    

Healthcare organizations have been embracing digital transformation to provide higher levels of flexible care and work towards universal access for underserved populations. The pandemic greatly accelerated these efforts, prompting providers to expand their efforts around remote clinics, telemedicine and other…

Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente is facing a proposed class-action lawsuit alleging that the health system let companies such as Google, Twitter and Microsoft intercept certain patient data, Bloomberg Law reported June 12.

At least four lawsuits have been filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts against Harvard Pilgrim Health Care and parent company Point32Health from the fallout of an April ransomware attack, The HIPAA Journal reported June 13.

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