As hospitals and health systems have improved their cybersecurity, hackers have still been interrupting healthcare by setting their sights on third-party technology companies and suppliers.
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While some of the nation's largest health systems have fully recovered from the Feb. 21 ransomware attack on UnitedHealth's Change Healthcare, smaller systems are still grappling with its effects, an Aug. 13 report from Strata Decision Technology found.
Chicago-based Roseland Community Hospital Association identified unauthorized access to its IT network June 2.
A McLaren Health Care employee claimed staff were told they must use their paid time off to cover the days missed following the cyberattack that struck the organization on Aug. 6, Fox 2 Detroit reported.
A data security incident disrupted some of the IT systems at Coeur d'Alene, Idaho-based Kootenai Health.
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A proposed class-action lawsuit against Tampa (Fla.) General Hospital over a 2023 data breach has been returned to state court, Bloomberg Law reported.
Hackers have upped their cyberattacks on the healthcare supply chain, putting hospitals and health systems in a position to respond.
The Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency partnered with the FBI to recommend new mitigation tactics to combat BlackSuit ransomware attacks, which have spread across the healthcare industry.
Cybercrime is akin to a "chronic disease" that must be managed through increased safeguards and federal collaboration, the American Hospital Association's chief executive wrote Aug. 8.
An organization that supplies blood to hundreds of hospitals is back to normal operations following a July 29 ransomware attack.