A survey of 1,100 cybersecurity, engineering, IT and networking professionals from healthcare organizations reported that 60 percent of cyberattacks have had a moderate or substantial impact on care delivery.
Category: cybersecurity
Hospital Sisters, Prevea Health experiencing systemwide outage
Springfield, Ill.-based Hospital Sisters Health System and Green Bay, Wis.-based Prevea Health are experiencing sporadic phone access and have reported that their websites and computer applications have been experiencing an outage since Aug. 27, the Gr…
Why hospitals should prepare for a month of downtime after cyberattack
The Joint Commission says hospitals and health systems should prepare to be on downtime for at least a month following a cyberattack, The Wall Street Journal reported.
Crozer Health heals systems after ransomware attack
Upland, Pa.-based Crozer Health confirmed to Becker’s that its computer systems are back online after an Aug. 3 ransomware attack on its parent company, Prospect Medical Holdings, rendered them offline.
Texas hospital alerts 350,000 patients to data breach
San Antonio-based CentroMed is reporting a data breach affecting 350,000 individuals, according to a filing with the HHS.
Mississippi health system, clinics still reeling from cybersecurity incident
Ocean Springs, Miss.-based Singing River Health System, its three hospitals and its medical clinics are still resorting to paper records as the organization was forced to take its systems offline due to a cyberattack, BankInfoSecurity reported Aug. 24….
Connecticut hospital nurse says ransomware attack has affected payroll
A Eastern Connecticut Health Network nurse says staff are doing their best to make sense of their paychecks as their systems are still down due to a ransomware attack that started Aug. 3, WFSB reported Aug. 24.
Ransomware gang reportedly selling Prospect Medical patient data
A ransomware gang is auctioning off Social Security numbers, passport information and health data from more than 500,000 patients and employees of Culver City, Calif.-based Prospect Medical Holdings, CyberNews reported Aug. 24.
Hospitals, health systems experiencing cybersecurity incidents
Here are seven hospitals and health systems dealing with cyberattacks Becker’s has reported on since Aug. 9:
Appeals court rejects data privacy lawsuit against UChicago Medicine, Google
A federal appeals court has rejected a class-action lawsuit against University of Chicago Medicine and Google that claimed their predictive analytics partnership violated patient privacy.
