Practice Management
Ascension Healthcare, with 140 hospitals and more than 50 urgent cares in 19 states, was impacted by a cyberattack earlier this month, forcing ambulances to divert and pharmacies to shut down. The system disconnected from its Epic EHR, which caused long emergency department wait times and care delays. Ascension has not given a timeline for when its systems will be fully restored, according to Healthcare Dive on its cyberattack state-by-state tracker. How much: When Change …
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Urgent message: As digital communication becomes more integral to our daily lives and job functions, cybercriminals are increasingly employing nefarious social engineering tactics like “phishing” to steal our valuable personal, professional, and financial information. Urgent care employees at every level should be trained to recognize phishing scams, and how to effectively safeguard themselves and their organizations from attack. Alan A. Ayers, MBA, MAcc is Chief Executive Officer of Velocity Urgent Care and is Practice Management …
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New data from IBM shows the healthcare industry was the top target of cyberattacks last year, outpacing financial services, manufacturing, and even government agencies. More than half of the attacks were the result of a healthcare worker innocently giving system access to individuals whose motives were not so innocent, or attributed to poor compliance with an organization’s own cybersecurity policies. At least 100 million healthcare records were compromised as a result in 2015. Such breaches …
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