NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) has urgently called for donations of O Positive and O Negative blood to boost stocks following a ransomware attack which has disrupted pathology services in London.The cyber attack on…
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MediSecure voluntarily enters administrationE-prescription service MediSecure entered into voluntary administration three weeks after it reported a “large-scale” ransomware attack.
FTI Consulting’s Vaughan Strawbridge and Paul Harlond have been appointed as administrators and liquidators of the…
Mark Dollar, chief executive at Synnovis, has confirmed that a ransomware attack has interrupted all the pathology service provider’s IT systems, causing patient activity to be cancelled or redirected.Synnovis is a pathology partnership between…
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The Australian government has assured that healthcare providers in the country can safely prescribe and dispense electronic prescriptions as usual amid the early stages of investigation into the major ransomware attack on MediSecure.Last week,…
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MediSecure, a provider of a digital prescription platform, is the latest in Australia to fall victim to a major ransomware attack by unidentified actors. On Thursday, 16 May, the company reported a cyber attack “impacting…
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It’s been a bad couple months for cybersecurity in healthcare. Or maybe it will end up being a good thing. I remember after the devestation of Hurricane Katrina, we all woke up to the…
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Ascension confirmed Saturday that a May 8 cybersecurity incident was a ransomware attack. But the 19-state health system said it’s making progress in updating systems and has provided separate updates for facilities in each…
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US non-profit health system Ascension has confirmed that its electronic health records (EHR) system is down following a ransomware incident on 8 May 2024.In a cybersecurity update, published on 13 May 2024, Ascension said…
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I have friends who work for Ascension. The concerns coming out of their facilities, which are offline due to a ransomware attack, are quite serious. It sounds like they haven’t done adequate downtime preparation,…
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For the 140th episode of the Healthcare IT Today Podcast we are talking about the Change Healthcare ransomware attack. To kick this episode off, we share our insights on what has happened in the…
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