Hospital nurses feel unprepared to safely manage patient care during prolonged cyber-related technology outages, a May 6 report from Black Book Research found. The report, titled “The Nurse Cyber-Downtime Gap,” surveyed 480 registered nurses and examined hospital cyber-downtime readiness from…
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.
Healthcare was the most targeted industry in a recent phishing campaign detected by Microsoft, the company said. From April 14-16, the phishing emails targeted over 35,000 users across more than 13,000 organizations in 26 countries, the majority (92%) in the…
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, National Security Agency and international cybersecurity arms have issued a guide about the careful adoptoin of agentic AI. “The guidance primarily focuses on large language model-based agentic AI systems and highlights key security…
The Joint Commission and the American Hospital Association created a first-of-its-kind program designed to help hospitals and health systems to sustain safe clinical operations during cyber-related technology outages. The Cyber Resilience Readiness program is a structured, free-to-complete self-assessment tool that…
A Maryland man has been charged with digitally snooping on his coworkers while working for a Maryland health system. Matthew Bathula, 41, of Clarksville, Md., faces two counts of unauthorized access to a protected computer and one count of aggravated…
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Two men convicted of committing ransomware attacks while working for cybersecurity firms each have been sentenced to four years in prison. Ryan Goldberg, 40, of Georgia, and Kevin Martin, 36, of Texas, were sentenced April 30 after each pleading guilty…
A March cyberattack constrained growth and caused margin pressures for medtech firm Stryker, but leaders still expect the company to meet financial projections by the end of the year, according to an April 30 earnings call. Stryker had to pause…
The US. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and other federal agencies have released a joint guide for applying zero-trust principles to operational technology systems, the American Hospital Association reported April 30. In health care, operational technology environments include tools that…
The American Hospital Association is pointing health systems to a federal advisory warning that Chinese hackers are employing the “covert networks” of compromised devices to prepare for and carry out cyberattacks. “For hospitals, this is particularly relevant,” said John Riggi,…
Medtronic has reported an unauthorized party accessed data in certain corporate IT systems. The company said it has not identified any impact to its products, patient safety, customer connections, manufacturing and distribution operations, financial reporting systems or its ability to…