Cybersecurity

Newport Beach, Calif.-based Pedes Orange County, a clinic that shares its facility with another medical group to conduct surgical procedures, notified 917 patients after a physician accessed its EMR database without permission and disclosed the materials to their attorney in…

Six days after ransomware took down Allscripts' cloud-hosted applications, the EHR vendor is still recovering, a company spokeswoman told Becker's Hospital Review.

Nearly 5.6 million patient records were breached during 477 incidents documented in 2017, up from 450 incidents in 2016 that compromised 27 million patient records, according to a Protenus report.

In an uncommon, less-advised move, officials at Hancock Health in Greenfield, Ind., decided to pay hackers' ransom — and made that fact public knowledge.

Healthcare professionals should be particularly concerned following a wave of cyberattacks involving SamSam, a ransomware variant used extensively in attacks on healthcare providers, according to BleepingComputer.

Protenus, a company that specializes in healthcare compliance analytics, received an $11 million investment for its comprehensive health data auditing and privacy monitoring platform.

The Chicago-based EHR vendor Allscripts has been recovering since Thursday from a ransomware attack that took down several applications hosted in data centers in Raleigh and Charlotte, N.C., according to CSO Online.

Decatur, Ind.-based Adams Health Network was struck by a ransomware attack Jan. 11 that targeted some of its computer servers, according to wane.com.

Allscripts is investigating a ransomware attack that impacted a limited number of its applications, company spokeswoman Concetta Rasiarmos told Becker's Hospital Review Thursday.

A Pentagon report suggests the U.S. nuclear strategy may involve using nuclear weapons in response to non-nuclear attacks, such as cyberattacks targeting U.S. critical infrastructure, according to The Hill.