Smaller health systems are especially prone to cyberattacks because their networks tend to be easier for hackers to access, according to a presentation by Microsoft cybersecurity leaders reported on by Chief Healthcare Executive.
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.
Amarillo-based Northwest Texas Healthcare System is notifying patients that some of their protected health information was compromised when its consulting company Adelanto HealthCare Ventures was targeted by a phishing attack.
Oklahoma City-based OU Health has revealed patient data may have been compromised after an employee laptop was stolen.
The Indiana Hospital Association said as cyberattacks on Indiana hospitals and health systems continue to increase, they are implementing new tactics such as 'hack lab' tests to assess vulnerabilities with medical devices before using them in patient care, Fox59 reported…
Russian ransomware gang Cl0p leaked the health information of 63,000 minors using virtual mental health company Brightline, as part of an attack on software company Fortra, Techmonitor reported March 29.
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Steven Ramirez, the CISO at Renown Health, joins the podcast to discuss his background, the benefits and security challenges surrounding Chat GPT in healthcare, how he's thinking about growth and adding value to his organization, and more.
This episode features Karen Habercoss, Chief Privacy Officer at University of Chicago Medicine & Erik Decker, Assistant Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer at Intermountain Healthcare. Here, they discuss what makes a patient privacy program effective, why privacy is…
Franklin, Ind.-based Johnson Memorial Health spent six months trying to get their operations back to normal after Hive ransomware group infiltrated its networks in October 2021, but it is still feeling the effects of the cyberattack two years later, Side…
An anonymous patient from Orlando Health filed a lawsuit March 16 alleging that the health system's website used pixel tracking technology that sent some patient information to Facebook.
Heidell, Pittoni, Murphy & Bach, a law firm that represented New York City area hospitals, has been forced to pay $200,000 to the state for its role in a 2021 data breach that compromised the health information of 114,000 patients.