Pediatric and primary care appointments will continue on a limited basis, but many other systems and services are temporarily ...

Providers could not verify patients' insurance, could not get paid, and both patient care and the financial stability ...

Four months ago, the city of Santee “experienced a data security incident involving the theft or encryption of company ...

From Volt Typhoon to Salt Typhoon, major cyber incidents in 2024 shined a spotlight on how agencies are managing cyber ...

As a practising psychiatrist, Dr Nicola Byrne, the National Data Guardian for health and social care in England, is acutely aware of the significance of health data for patients.

The US government has set out proposals to increase security obligations on healthcare providers to protect patient data amid ...

Ascension had not publicly disclosed the total number of people affected by the May ransomware attack that compromised ...

An estimated 5.6 million people had personal information leaked during a May cyberattack against health care provider ...

The ultimate impact of the ransomware attack ... health care providers — whose data is particularly sensitive and whose operations are especially critical — have increasingly become a target ...

These attacks force healthcare providers to take their systems offline, making it difficult to provide care and access patient data until the hackers are paid a fee or IT specialists remove the ...