A healthcare cybersecurity bill with bipartisan support has moved forward in the U.S. Senate.
Category: cybersecurity
Hospitals on critical alert amid ransomware attack on blood center
A ransomware attack has disrupted operations at OneBlood, a nonprofit blood donation center that serves hundreds of hospitals.
Geisinger data breach lawsuits to merge
Federal lawsuits related to a data breach affecting more than 1 million Danville, Pa.-based Geisinger patients are expected to be consolidated into a class action, PennLive reported July 29.
Feds crack down on healthcare hackers
Federal agencies are intensifying their efforts to crack down on foreign hackers targeting U.S. hospitals and health systems.
Change Healthcare begins breach notifications
UnitedHealth Group’s Change Healthcare has begun sending out letters to individuals affected by its Feb. 21 ransomware attack.
Kaiser Permanente staffer inappropriately accessed patient records, photos
A former Kaiser Permanente employee inappropriately accessed the health system’s EHR and may have viewed medical information and photos.
Healthcare data breach costs hit $9.77M
Healthcare saw the most expensive data breaches across all industries, with average breach costs reaching $9.77 million, a July 30 report from IBM found.
CrowdStrike IT outage: What comes next for health systems
More than a week after a global IT outage caused by a faulty update from cybersecurity company CrowdStrike, hospitals and health systems have largely returned to business as usual. So CIOs are focused on what comes next.
Lawmakers look to curb liabilities for hacked health systems
Amid growing concerns over class-action lawsuits against healthcare organizations following data breaches, state lawmakers are taking action to limit liabilities for these organizations, Politico reported July 29.
New Hampshire health system hit with ransomware
A New Hampshire-based health system recently fell victim to a ransomware attack, databreaches.net reported July 29.
