Tag: EHR
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Patient data stolen in Ascension ransomware attack, but EHR restored
Ascension this week made two follow-up announcements around the Black Basta ransomware attack that forced the non-profit healthcare …
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Illinois hospital forced into EHR downtime after cyberattack
Sarah D. Culbertson Memorial Hospital in Illinois is the latest hospital to be forced into electronic health record downtime procedures …
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EHR Vendor Faces Legal Action Over Data Breach
A Tennessee-based healthcare technology services company is facing legal action over a cyber-attack that occurred in August 2021. The class …
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Arizona Medical Practice Permanently Loses EHR Data
A medical practice in Arizona has lost nearly all the data entered into its electronic health record (EHR) system due to a cyber-attack. …
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Vocera Edge maximizes EHR investments and empowers mobile clinicians
Vocera introduced its new cloud-based clinical communication and collaboration (CC&C) solution for smartphones called Vocera Edge. Designed …
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Vulns in Open Source EHR Puts Patient Health Data at Risk
Security researchers from Bishop Fox have discovered several critical vulnerabilities in an emerging open source electronic health record …
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Ransomware attack freezes health records access at 110 nursing homes
Happy Thanksgiving: your elder loved one’s life may be at …
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Labs report finds cyberthreats against healthcare increasing while security circles the drain
The team at Malwarebytes Labs is at it again, this time with a special edition of our quarterly CTNT report—Cybercrime tactics and …
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EHR Means “Electronic Health Records” Right? Nope – How About “Errors Happen Regularly”
Bring medicine into the digital age. EHR’s promised better care, patient empowerment and lower …
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30% of healthcare databases are exposed online
Despite the fact that electronic health records (EHR) contain extremely sensitive information about individuals, it is shockingly easy for …
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EHR Vendor Mistake Impacts 150,000 U.K. Patients
A coding mistake by an electronic health records vendor has resulted in a data breach impacting 150,000 patients in the United Kingdom. See …
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Physician, protect thyself: healthcare cybersecurity circling the drain
No one knows you better than you do. But thanks to technology advances and the continued digitization of healthcare data accumulation and …
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