Cybersecurity

St. Louis-based BJC HealthCare reported an employee email breach on May 5 that may have exposed patient information.

Ann and Robert Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago reported that an employee viewed more than 4,800 patient medical records without a work-related reason, according to a notice posted May 4 on its website.

The coronavirus pandemic has disrupted the already complex healthcare delivery system, requiring IT teams to focus on bolstering their hospital's response.

EHR vendors and hospitals must team up to improve the availability and setup of proxy accounts within patient portals in order to ensure patient health information remains private and secure, according to a recent JAMA Internal Medicine study. 

There have been 28 data breach incidents reported in 2020 so far, including email hacking incidents, malware attacks and unauthorized access to EHRs, according to HHS.

After LabCorp reported two cyberattacks in the past 12 months and lost value as a result, a shareholder has filed suit against the company, according to a HIPAA Journal report.

Southfield, Mich.-based Ascension Eastwood Clinics reported a patient information breach after an employee sent an email to several patients without blinding the email addresses, according to a release from the system.

Microsoft fixed a vulnerability in Microsoft Teams that would have allowed hackers to tap into a subdomain takeover flaw using a malicious GIF that extracts personal user data from the workplace communication platform, according to a recent CyberArk report. 

Pueblo, Colo.-based Parkview Medical Center's computer network remains down after a cyberattack on April 21, according to local CBS affiliate KKTV. 

Advocate Aurora Health reported an email phishing incident at the Aurora Medical Center-Bay Area in Marinette, Wis., earlier this year.