Cybersecurity news for hospitals and health systems

As cybercrime becomes more sophisticated and widespread, Safehaven.com expects economic damage from cybercrime could exceed $6 trillion by 2021.

Two of the largest independent communities within England's National Health Service developed a system to notify other NHS hospitals of cybersecurity incidents and enable information sharing on response tips, Digital Health reports.

Three researchers from Nashville, Tenn.-based Vanderbilt University wrote to JAMA Internal Medicine to question the findings of a recent study on hospital data breaches.

Amid an IT talent shortage in an ever-evolving cyberthreat landscape, businesses and hospitals often make investment mistakes when it comes to cybersecurity, according to a joint Information Systems Security Association and Enterprise Strategy Group report released Wednesday.

Optium Cyber Systems, a company focused on processes to identify and address cybersecurity vulnerabilities in an organization's IT infrastructure, established an advisory board.

Muncie-based Indiana University Health Ball Memorial Hospital is notifying some of its patients after a bag containing billing paperwork with patient information was found at an intersection in Muncie, according to a notice on the organization's website.

Staunton, Va.-based Valley Family Medicine is notifying 8,500 patients of a security incident after two employees printed and misused a mailing list, a hospital spokesperson confirmed to Becker's Hospital Review.

The Emergency Care Research Institute ranked ransomware and other cybersecurity threats as the No. 1 health technology hazard for 2018, according to its Top 10 Health Technology Hazards for 2018 list.

Americans are more worried they will be a victim of a cybercrime than any other crime, according to Gallup's annual crime poll.

The majority of organizations leverage encryption to secure corporate data held on personal devices, according to a Bitglass survey.