Cybersecurity news for hospitals and health systems

Baylor Scott & White Medical Center in Waxahachie, Texas, recently notified its patients that their personal information may have been exposed during a data breach.

Hackensack, N.J.-based Regional Cancer Care Associates will pay $425,000 and implement new privacy and security measures to settle a 2019 data breach that exposed 105,200 patients' information, the New Jersey acting attorney general's office said Dec. 15. 

A growing number of hospitals and health systems, including Baptist Health and Ascension, have been impacted by a Dec. 11 ransomware attack on human resources management company Ultimate Kronos Group.

Medical devices are more advanced, connected and ubiquitous than ever.

The HHS Cybersecurity Program has issued a letter warning of a software vulnerability that puts healthcare providers across the country at risk of a cyberattack.

Certain Hillrom Welch Allyn cardiology products have an authentication vulnerability that could let hackers gain access to privileged accounts, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency recently announced. 

San Angelo, Texas-based Shannon Medical Center has implemented downtime procedures for processing payroll and timesheets after its human resources management company Ultimate Kronos Group experienced a cyberattack Dec. 13, The San Angelo Standard-Times reported. 

Artificial intelligence models designed to expedite cancer diagnoses are vulnerable to cyberattacks that falsify images, according to a study published Dec. 14 in Nature Communications.

Telehealth platform Doxy.me said it is resolving an issue that gave three third-party companies access to the names of patients' providers, CyberScoop reported Dec. 10.

Planned Parenthood Los Angeles is facing a potential class action lawsuit after it notified about 400,000 patients that their protected health information was exposed during a cyberattack.