Hospitals in Wisconsin, Georgia, and Louisiana—Southwest Health Center, Jack Hughston Memorial Hospital, and Baton Rouge General, respectively—have been targeted by vicious cyberattacks in recent months. In addition to highlighting the healthcare sector’s susceptibility to cybercrimals, it’s a trend that speaks to a larger issue at play, cybersecurity experts say.
A man was shot in a New York City hospital waiting room during an altercation but did not sustain life-threatening injuries. No one else was harmed.
Baptist Health will integrate Sepio’s HAC-1 system to defend its more than 400 locations in Kentucky and southern Indiana against proximity-based cyberattacks.
Hospitals in Wisconsin, Georgia, and Louisiana—Southwest Health Center, Jack Hughston Memorial Hospital, and Baton Rouge General, respectively—have been targeted by vicious cyberattacks in recent months. In addition to highlighting the healthcare sector’s susceptibility to cybercrimals, it’s a trend that speaks to a larger issue at play, cybersecurity experts say.
The Board of Commissioners of The Joint Commission has announced the appointment of Jonathan B. Perlin, MD, PhD, MSHA, MACP, FACMI, to lead The Joint Commission as its next president and CEO.
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The University of Utah Hospital became the site of a tragic accident on Wednesday, September 15, after an MRI machine crashed outside the hospital, killing one worker.
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A rooftop blaze at a hospital in Queens, N.Y. left two people with minor injuries, fire officials say. Thick black smoke poured out over the top of John’s Episcopal Hospital’s roof, before the flames were extinguished.
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Health officials say hospitals will begin portioning patient care in some of its locations, due to the high number of coronavirus cases overwhelming the system. They are calling it a “crisis standards of care.”
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The center will foster university-industry-government collaborations to ensure that medical devices are both safe and secure from the growing number of cybersecurity threats, officials say.
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When 20 ventilators from the State of New York arrived without a pre-arranged delivery time on the shipping dock of Long Island Community Hospital at the height of the coronavirus pandemic, the hospital’s clinical engineering team kicked into high gear. But the arrival of the ventilators was only the start of the CE team’s work.
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Penn State Health has selected Nuvolo Connected Workplace along with First Health Advisory services to support its operational technology (OT) security program for an extensive network of medical devices and facilities systems.
