Cybersecurity

Andover, Mass.-based Covenant Health is investigating a systemwide issue that has disrupted phone and internet connectivity across several of its facilities, including hospitals in Maine and New Hampshire. Here are five things to know: Editor’s note: This article was updated…

Kettering (Ohio) Health has resumed normal operations across all of its emergency departments, lifting a temporary diversion that had limited access to emergency care. The change, according to a May 28 update posted on the health system’s website, means Kettering…

UChicago Medicine Medical Group is notifying patients of a data breach involving a former third-party vendor that may have compromised individuals’ personal information. Here are five things to know:

Six health system cybersecurity leaders have been named to the C100 list for the top chief information security officers. The board of CISOs Connect, a membership-based interactive community of executives, selected the top 100 from hundreds of nominations based on…

Kettering (Ohio) Health has confirmed that a ransomware attack is behind the IT outage that has disrupted the health system over the past week. Here are six things to know: 1. The 14-hospital system believes the cyberattack involves ransomware, John…

Kettering (Ohio) Health is continuing to address an IT disruption that has affected most of its systems. In a May 23 statement on the health system’s website, CEO Mike Gentry said Kettering Health experienced an “unscheduled downtime” May 19. “Our…

Healthcare data breaches remain steady as ever. Data breaches affecting 500 or more individuals were up in April after a 12-month high in January, according to HHS data analyzed by HIPAA Journal. Here are the number of those incidents that…

Hospitals across the Dayton, Ohio, region are stepping in to support Kettering (Ohio) Health, after a May 20 cybersecurity incident disrupted the health system’s electronic systems. Here are four things to know:

Healthcare leaders are coming together to try to identify and prevent the next big cyberattack like the huge 2024 hack of Change Healthcare. The Health Sector Coordinating Council Cybersecurity Working Group, a public-private partnership comprising hundreds of entities such as…

As hospitals and health plans bolster their digital defenses against cyberattacks, many remain vulnerable to a new and escalating risk: AI-enabled physical threats, a May 20 report from Black Book Research found. The report is based on responses from 1,128…