Cybersecurity

Numerous privacy incidents at hospitals, IT suppliers and other healthcare organizations captured public attention last month.

Minneapolis-based Children's Minnesota recently notified 37,942 patients about a system error that may have exposed their protected health information.

North Platte, Neb.-based Great Plains Health is working to restore its email, EHR and other computer services after being targeted in a ransomware attack Nov. 25, according to local NBC affiliate KNOP.

St. Louis-based Ascension and Google have made headlines over the past few weeks over Project Nightingale," an initiative designed to gather patient data to create healthcare solutions.

Google has terminated four employees for allegedly sharing sensitive information, including details of medical appointments, according to a memo confirmed by CNBC.

Staff at more 110 nursing homes and acute-care facilities have been unable to access patient records since Nov. 17 after internet security and data storage services provider Virtual Care Provider was hit with a ransomware attack, according to the Milwaukee…

Cape Girardeau, Mo.-based Saint Francis Healthcare System began notifying patients Nov. 20 about a ransomware attack at the system's Ferguson Medical Group.

CI Security, a startup offering healthcare organizations IT solutions and services for cybersecurity purposes, announced Nov. 19 an infusion of funding from the American Hospital Association's Innovation Development Fund.

The head of Google Health, David Feinberg, MD, has responded with more clarity on what the tech giant and St. Louis-based Ascension are doing with Project Nightingale in a Nov. 20 blog post.

Of the 5.7 billion robocalls made in October, around 288 million were proposing health insurance, according to data from call-blocking smartphone app YouMail and cited by The Washington Post.