Privacy & Security
President and CEO Chris Van Gorder said in a statement that he anticipates restoration of the system's electronic health record this week.
The bug allowed providers to access the scheduling vendor's system after their usernames and passwords were intended to be limited.
The agency said it had identified at least 16 incidents over the last year aimed at healthcare and first-responder systems.
The statement was published today as part of the organisation's latest update regarding a cyberattack on Tuesday.
While the organization's website is now accessible, along with some "read-only" medical records, its patient portal is still down.
This week's top stories include a cyberattack that led to a network outage at Scripps Health, the HRSA telling six drugmakers they're in violation of the 340B statute and Google giving a sneak peek into its new AI dermatology assistant.
Conservative individuals were less supportive of using digital data to mitigate transmission than moderate or liberal ones.
In this episode of HIT Cybersecurity, attorney Wynter Deagle, partner at Troutman Pepper, discusses what health systems should be thinking about in terms of incident response, cyber insurance and other compliance questions.
The cyber risk platform Black Kite released a new report this week finding that one in 10 global pharmaceutical manufacturers are at a high risk of suffering a ransomware attack.
Rita Bowen, vice president of privacy, compliance and HIM policy at MRO, discusses how the changes could affect healthcare provider organizations.