Cybersecurity news for hospitals and health systems

Novato, Calif.-based Marin Community Clinics was hit with a ransomware attack on June 19, which forced physicians to use paper documentation that would later be transferred to the EHR, according to the HIPAA Journal.

Lake City, Fla., officials agreed to pay cybercriminals $426,000 on June 24 after a ransomware attack locked them out of systems, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Eight federal agencies, including HHS, have failed to meet basic cybersecurity benchmarks for the past 10 years, according to a report from the U.S. Senate's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations and cited by cleveland.com.

Here are five data breaches payers recently reported:

Vision and dental insurer Dominion National is notifying an unknown number of members of a data security incident that may have caused personal information to be exposed.

Crown Point, Ind.-based Franciscan Health sent letters to 2,200 patients that an employee had viewed their records "without a business reason," according to nwi.com.

Vikrant Arora is the chief information security officer at Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City, where he oversees security and IT services for the 215-bed hospital that includes a 33-member medical staff.

Google began rolling out an open-source tool this week that allows organizations to share their datasets with other parties without violating the privacy of the individuals included in the datasets.

UMass Memorial Health Care's behavior health service in Worcester sent letters to 4,598 patients notifying them of an April 18 data breach, according to the Worcester Business Journal.

Don Fosen is system director of technology and CISO of Naperville, Ill.-based Edward Elmhurst Healthcare, a health system with more than 50 outpatient locations and 7,700 employees.