Category: cybersecurity

Patients of Advocate Health Care and Aurora Health Care may be eligible for a piece of the $12.2 million settlement the health systems reached over the use of pixel tracking technology.

Doctors’ Management Services, a medical management company based in West Bridgewater, Mass., agreed to pay HHS and the Office for Civil Rights a $100,000 settlement due to a ransomware attack that affected the protected health information of 206,695 in…

Springfield, Ill.-based Hospital Sisters Health System said it has begun reviewing the data that has been potentially impacted by an August cybersecurity incident on the health system. 

Vernon, Conn.-based Rockville General Hospital’s parent company, Prospect Medical Holdings, was hit by a cyberattack in August that exacerbated Rockville’s financial struggles, the Hartford Courant reported Oct. 29.  

Iowa City-based University of Iowa Health Care is warning employees against the use of ChatGPT for its potential to violate HIPAA.

Ransomware attacks on healthcare have resulted in downtime-related losses of more than $77 billion for the U.S. economy, according to an Oct. 23 report from cybersecurity firm Comparitech. 

Healthcare facilities that use NextGen HealthCare’s open-source data integration tool Mirth Connect have been urged to apply updates due to a flaw that could be exploited and compromise data, SC Media reported Oct. 26.

As healthcare ransomware attacks are climbing, the Cybersecurity and Infrastrucure Security Agency and HHS are providing a cybersecurity toolkit to hospitals.

Several hospitals and health systems across the U.S. are facing lawsuits regarding data breach incidents that involved patients’ protected health information. 

In September, the healthcare industry saw a notable surge in ransomware incidents, with 18 attacks occurring, representing an 86% month-over-month rise compared to August, a Oct. 24 report from NCC Group found.