TigerText, a provider of secure, real-time messaging, announced a 750 percent spike in message volume as well as the addition of a number of healthcare organizations to its customer base.
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 Community Health Systems made headlines last week after a foreign cyberattack compromised the personal and health information of 4.5 million people. However, data breaches are not just the result of external threats — hospital and health system employees…
Tucson-based Urological Associates of Southern Arizona has notified more than 3,000 patients of a potential data breach after an investigation found employees did not properly dispose of patient urine specimen cups, according to a Tucson News Now report.
A former employee of Newport News, Va.-based Riverside Health System was arrested and charged for stealing credit card information from cancer patients, according to a report from The Virginian-Pilot.
A courier for Beverly (Mass.) Hospital lost lab request forms for 54 patients as he was in transit from Beverly Hospital to Addison Gilbert Hospital in Gloucester, Mass., according to a Gloucester Times report.
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Penn Medicine Rittenhouse in Philadelphia has notified 661 patients of a potential data breach after receipts were stolen from an office in Pennsylvania Hospital, according to a Philly.com report.
This morning, I received what has become a familiar email — a company that has my personal and financial information has suffered a data breach. Today, it was Spotify, an online music streaming service with about 40 million active users,…
NorthBay Medical Center in Fairfield, Calif., is implementing Mobile Connect, a secure texting solution from Amcom Software.
In order to improve communication among staff members while remaining HIPAA-compliant, many hospitals and health systems are turning to secure texting solutions.
According to security firm IntelliCentrics, about 30 percent of hospitals do not have some kind of formal check-in process for patients' visitors.