Keynote: Cybersecurity risk management, protecting your OR and bottom line
Editor's Note Juuso Leinonen, principal project engineer at ECRI, an independent nonprofit healthcare research organization, captured OR Business Management Conference attendees with this message: cybersecurity is a patient safety issue. Each year, ECRI produces a list of 10 health technology hazards, and in 2022, cybersecurity attacks topped the list. During…
Staffing shortage a contributing factor to cybersecurity vulnerabilities
Editor's Note According to a new report, titled “The State of Security 2022” from Software company Splunk, mass resignations and gaps in staffing may be contributing to cybersecurity companies’ inability to defend against certain cyberattacks, Becker’s Health IT April 25 reports. The report surveyed more than 1,000 cybersecurity leaders across…
Hospitals, ORs fear ransomware fallout from Ukraine invasion
Hospitals and health systems know they are attractive targets for cybercriminals. When lives are at stake, and the victims are often insured, ransomware gangs can expect a quick and easy payout. But since the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24, hospitals have had to face a new reality: The…
Cybersecurity alert: New ‘exceptionally aggressive’ ransomware threat
Editor's Note In an HC3: Analyst Note alert released on April 18, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a cybersecurity threat warning for a new ransomware group named Hive that HHS called “exceptionally aggressive” and “financially motivated,” Becker’s Health IT April 20 reports. According to the alert,…
Free Daily News
- Healthcare employment up in August
- FDA announces Class 1 recalls for laryngoscopes, ventilators
- Study: bariatric surgery beats medication for hypertension control
- Iranian group intensifies cyberattacks on US healthcare
- FDA announces Class 1 recall for ventilator adapter assemblies
- Countdown to OR Manager Conference: Lean and mean surgery centers—thinking outside the box
- APIC calls for improved medical device reprocessing instructions, guidelines
- Study: New fluorescent light technology detects hidden bacteria in wounds
- Perioperative mortality for living kidney donors drops significantly
- The Joint Commission, NQF open applications for 2024 Eisenberg awards