Category: cybersecurity

Hospitals reduce patient intake following a ransomware attack, Politico reported May 29. 

St. Louis-based Ascension has restored access to its EHR in its first market following a May 8 ransomware attack.

Most attacks on U.S. healthcare are coming from Russia, ABC affiliate KGTV reported May 28. 

An unauthorized user or users accessed the email accounts of a “small number” of University of Chicago Medicine employees, potentially compromising patient health information. 

Hackers accessed the emails of two pediatric health system employees, exposing patient data.

St. Louis-based Ascension said it expects patients and providers to notice progress on its cyberattack response after Memorial Day weekend.

Several hospitals and health systems have reported cybersecurity incidents that have led to compromised patient data and IT systems during May. 

A Wyoming hospital said its financial situation is improving since the Change Healthcare hack but is not back to where it was before the cyberattack, the Powell (Wyo.) Tribune reported.

A hospital employee inadvertently attached a file to a patient email that exposed the health data of thousands of other patients.

Ascension, a 140-hospital system based in St. Louis, continued to deal with the fallout of a ransomware attack more than two weeks after the hack took its IT network offline.