Preparing healthcare organizations to respond to and rebound from a disruptive ransomware attack is akin to implementing a "12-step program," said Dr. Eric Liederman, CEO of consultancy CyberSolutionsMD and recently retired long-serving director of medical informatics at Kaiser Permanente.
Michigan-based McLaren Health Care is dealing with its second cyberattack in less than a year, disrupting IT systems and patient services at its 13 hospitals and other medical facilities. Ransomware gang INC Ransom allegedly claims to have carried out this latest attack.
A cyberattack on a U.K. laboratory services provider is disrupting patient care and testing services at several London-based NHS hospitals and other care facilities. Meanwhile, in the U.S., Ascension is providing a restoration timeline for its hospital EHRs in the wake of its attack.
Rapid expansion of telehealth services and the shift to remote work arrangements have introduced new vulnerabilities as these systems often rely on external networks that need security. At the same time, greater network complexity is making it more challenging for IT teams to monitor and secure all endpoints...
U.S. healthcare interoperability - across doctors, dentists, other healthcare providers and vendors that support them - brings new opportunities for hackers to monetize disruption of badly needed services, said Kyle Hanslovan, CEO, Huntress.
Federal regulators are continuing their crusade for healthcare firms to provide patients and their representatives with timely access to medical records when requested. HHS OCR recently hit two nursing home operators with fines in separate incidents involving HIPAA "right of access" disputes.
The vast healthcare ecosystem disruption caused by the recent attack on Change Healthcare, which affected more than 100 of the company's IT products and services, underscores the concentrated cyber risk when a major vendor suffers a serious cyber incident, said Keith Fricke, partner at tw-Security.
The Change Healthcare attack is already providing valuable lessons to healthcare firms - mostly about the importance of resilience, especially when it comes the industry's supply chain and third parties, said Nitin Natarajan, deputy director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.
Ransomware group Rhysida is offering to sell "exclusive data" stolen from a Chicago children's hospital for $3.4 million on the dark web, while the hospital is still struggling to recover its IT systems, including its electronic health records and patient portal, one month after the attack.
A bipartisan pair of congressmen is again attempting to address long-standing issues of patient safety and privacy - as well as medical errors, inadvertent information disclosures and denied medical claims - which all occur when patients and the health records used to treat them do not match.
When a hospital or clinic is hit with a cyberattack, it often seems as if the electronic health record systems just can't win. Even if the EHR system is not the prime target of the attack, it's still frequently taken off line as the organization responds to the incident. What should entities do?
Accenture has finalized its acquisition of U.K. tech consultancy firm 6point6, which specializes in cybersecurity, cloud and digital transformation solutions. The acquisition will add 6point6's 400 staffers to Accenture in support of its business in the U.K. market.
Post-COVID and digital transformation, consumer expectations are forever changed when it comes to healthcare delivery. The challenge now: how to raise the security bar. Elizabeth A. Sexton of Adobe talks about how to secure the new healthcare consumer experience.
With the proliferation of ransomware, healthcare delivery organizations (HDOs) are reckoning with a ‘new math’ in cybersecurity as bad actors now seek to shut down care operations itself. Not surprisingly, regulatory fines and cyber insurance premiums are skyrocketing, while patient safety itself hangs in the...
Creating a culture of cybersecurity across a healthcare enterprise can be challenging, but it’s critical to patient safety. The days of leaving cybersecurity solely on the shoulders of IT departments are long gone as purchasing decisions get made by department heads across the organization, many of which include...
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