At least four lawsuits have been filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts against Harvard Pilgrim Health Care and parent company Point32Health from the fallout of an April ransomware attack, The HIPAA Journal reported June 13.

Healthcare revenue cycle management firm Intellihartx disclosed that 489,830 patients were affected by a third-party data breach involving a file transfer software called GoAnywhere from third-party vendor Fortra.

New York City-based Richmond University Medical Center has fully recovered from a ransomware attack that caused multiweek disruptions, silive.com reported June 12.

Fresno, Calif.-based Community Health System is expanding its suite of Masimo monitoring tools across its four-hospital campuses.

Somerville, Mass.-based Mass General Brigham is testing out generative artificial intelligence for patient portal messages and clinical notes and has used the technology to create a video.

As hospitals face a vast array of cybersecurity threats, an effective working relationship between the chief information security officer and CIO becomes even more important. 

Two Idaho hospitals continued to recover two weeks after a cyberattack.

Physicians are turning to ChatGPT to craft more empathetic responses to patients, The New York Times reported June 12.

North Korea and China were listed as state actors that have been sponsoring hackers to target healthcare, according to a June 8 brief from the Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center. 

St. Peter's Health, based in Helena, Mont., spent $25 million to switch to an Epic EHR system.