by Jon Moore | Jan 15, 2021 | Blog
Last year, more than a dozen health systems were driven into EHR downtime by ransomware attacks. The EHR is the information system equivalent to the heart of a healthcare provider. All-important patient information flows through these critical information systems. In...
by Jon Moore | Jan 11, 2021 | Blog
Throughout this past fall, international criminal organizations asserted their dominance over the healthcare sector through ransomware. By the end of November, more than a dozen health systems were driven into EHR downtime by ransomware attacks. The pandemic’s...
by Bob Chaput | Jan 5, 2021 | Blog
Over the past 10 years, the healthcare industry’s understanding of cyber risk has evolved through four distinct phases, emphasizing four different aspects of cyber risk. Understanding these four different phases gives context for where healthcare cyber risk...
by Steve Cagle | Nov 30, 2020 | Blog
I read with immense interest the letter[1] that Senator Mark Warner sent to Alan Miller following the ransomware attack on Universal Health Services earlier this fall. As we have seen, cyberattacks are compromising the confidentiality of patient data. They are also...
by Bob Chaput | Nov 20, 2020 | Blog
Healthcare organizations are experiencing a renewed onslaught of cyber attacks since the advent of the coronavirus pandemic. Hospitals and health systems were already targets of cyber attacks before the pandemic emerged. Now, the rapid shift to remote work and...
