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Bluewater Health getting new, more secure hospital info system

Posted on January 16, 2024 by Dissent

Tyler Kula reports: Bluewater Health, hardest hit by a cyberattack on five Southwestern Ontario hospitals last fall, had a relatively dated system for storing and sharing patient information at the time, Bluewater Health’s board chairperson says. “It did make a difference,” said Margaret Dragan, about the hospital group’s 20-plus-year-old hospital information system that’s been eyed for…

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Quantum Radiology cyber attack: Patients kept in the dark about nature of attack while employees are being harassed by attackers

Posted on January 15, 2024 by Dissent

Here’s a great way to destroy any trust your patients might have in you.  Madeleine Damo reports: Staff at a western Sydney radiologist – recently hit with a cyber attack – were told to tell concerned patients the breach was “an operational IT issue”, while also fielding harassing phone calls from hackers themselves. Imaging and diagnostics…

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Pharma Giant Alkem Laboratories Faces Security Breach, Rs 52 Crores at Stake

Posted on January 13, 2024 by Dissent

Sharad Natani reports: Pharmaceutical giant Alkem Laboratories confirmed Friday that a cybersecurity incident led to a fraudulent transfer of Rs 52 crore from one of its subsidiaries. While the company maintained the impact was minimal and confined to a specific incident, the disclosure raises concerns about vulnerabilities in India’s pharmaceutical sector to cyberattacks. Without revealing…

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Fertility Test Lab Will Pay $1.25M to Settle Breach Lawsuit

Posted on January 13, 2024 by Dissent

In 2021, Quest-owned ReproSource Fertility Diagnostics disclosed a ransomware attack in August potentially affecting 350,000 patients. One month after disclosure, they were sued. Now Marianne Kolbasuk McGee reports that there is a settlement. A Massachusetts federal court preliminarily approved the proposed settlement on Wednesday. The proposed class action litigation, which consolidated two similar lawsuits against…

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Erie VA Medical Center says it regrets veteran info disclosure

Posted on January 11, 2024 by Dissent

 Keith Gushard  reports: The Erie VA Medical Center says it regrets any preventable disclosure of sensitive veteran information and takes appropriate action to inform and protect impacted individuals as quickly as possible. The statement, issued Monday, comes almost eight full weeks after a printing error was discovered about the potential disclosure of limited information that…

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Former Executive Sentenced to Probation for HIPAA Violation

Posted on January 11, 2024 by Dissent

Steve Alder reports: Mark Kevin Robison, a former vice president of Commonwealth Health Corporation (now Med Center Health) in Kentucky has been sentenced to 2 years’ probation and ordered to pay $140,000 in restitution after reaching a plea agreement with federal prosecutors over a HIPAA violation. Robison pled guilty to knowingly disclosing the protected health…

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