Google Health leader David Feinberg, MD, continued to defend the company's partnership with St. Louis-based Ascension, nicknamed Project Nightingale, at the StartUp Health Festival, an event for biotech entrepreneurs, according to Forbes.
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.
Franklin, Tenn.-based SouthEast Eye Specialists Group began notifying 13,000 patients that their protected health information may have been exposed in a data breach.
Chico, Calif.-based Enloe Medical Center continues to treat patients using back-up, offline protocols after suffering from a ransomware attack Jan. 2, according to the Chicoer.
After multiple failures and successes to partner with healthcare organizations, today Google has access to tens of millions of patient health records in three-quarters of U.S., according to a report from The Wall Street Journal.
Lagrangeville, N.Y.-based Health Quest began notifying an undisclosed number of patients Jan. 10 that their information may have been exposed in a phishing attack.
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An estimated 80,000 companies throughout 158 countries could be affected by vulnerabilities in software from Citrix, according to Bankinfosecurity.com.
More than 1 billion medical images of patients from across the globe can be accessed and downloaded because hospitals continue to use insecure storage systems, according to a TechCrunch report.
In recent months, organizations from all of the world have report that a ransomware known as Maze has infected their servers, according to CyberScoop. The FBI is now stepping in, issuing a warning to U.S. companies.
Patients of Richard Davis, MD, have reported that they have received ransom demands from a cybercriminal who threatens to release their public information if they don’t pay the demand.
As data breaches become more common, cybersecurity positions are in high demand. Cybersecurity specialists are among the emerging jobs that have the most growth potential for 2020, according to a Ladders report.