Category: cybersecurity

CISOs on the top 2022 healthcare cybersecurity trends

Cybersecurity dominated healthcare news in 2022; high-profile data breaches and cyberattacks showed that healthcare organizations’ cybersecurity postures are increasingly tied to their financial bottom line.

CISOs on the top 2022 healthcare cybersecurity trends

Cybersecurity dominated healthcare news in 2022; high-profile data breaches and cyberattacks showed that healthcare organizations’ cybersecurity postures are increasingly tied to their financial bottom line.

Louisiana health system alerts patients of possible data breach

Lake Charles (La.) Health System is alerting its patients that in October, an unauthorized third party was able to access its network, chron.com reported Dec. 26.

South Dakota health system notifies patients of 3rd-party data breach

Prairie Lakes Healthcare System notified 1,059 patients that their information may have been compromised due to a third-party data breach at its business associate and collections vendor, AAA Collections. 

New York hospital network still relying on paper records after November IT incident

New York City-based One Brooklyn Health’s hospitals are still relying on paper charting after a November cybersecurity incident caused three of its hospitals to shut down its EHR and IT systems, CNN reported Dec. 20. 

HHS urges healthcare organizations to check their Citrix Gateway for vulnerabilities

The HHS urged Citrix Application Delivery Controller and Citrix Gateway users to check that their systems are not vulnerable to a critical unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerability, which is being actively exploited by Chinese hackers and oth…

7 hospitals hit by a cyberattack in the last 30 days

From EHR shutdowns to employees breaching patient records, here are seven health systems that have been affected by a cybersecurity incident since Dec. 1:

Cyberattacks in 2022 and what hospitals, health systems can learn going into 2023

The healthcare sector is on track to meet or exceed the more than 50.4 million patient records that were breached in 2021. 

Ransomware attack may have breached data of 254,000 Medicare beneficiaries

CMS said a ransomware attack on a subcontractor may have affected as many as 254,000 Medicare beneficiaries and breached such personal data as Social Security numbers and bank account numbers.

Emory Healthcare employee inappropriately accesses 1,600 patient records

An employee at Atlanta-based Emory Healthcare inappropriately accessed 1,600 patient records from December 2020 to December 2021.