YOU ARE A FOOL IF YOU THINK YOUR MEDICAL RECORDS ARE SAFE ON ANY MEDICAL NETWORK
20 million Americans in 21 states ‘are still at risk of dangerous healthcare after cyberattack’: Breach at one of US’s biggest hospital chains has already caused overdoses, cancer care delays and ambulance diversions
CommonSpirit Health – a system that runs 140 US hospitals, and more than 1,000 care sites including cancer clinics, surgery hubs and stroke centers- suffered a major IT breach on October 3 in a suspected ransomware hack. A three-year-old Iowa boy (pictured) was overdosed after computer systems shut down. Iowa ambulances had to be diverted to hospitals not run by CommonSpirirt, and patients in Washington suffered delays to cancer care.
An ‘unprecedented’ hospital system hack disrupts health-care services
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Yet ANOTHER hospital chain is struck by cyberattack: Half a million patient records in Texas ‘are leaked’ – weeks after massive multi-state healthcare IT breach led to cancer delays and ambulance diversions
Texas-based OakBend Medical Center, the last remaining independent nonprofit hospital in the greater Houston area, admitted on Thursday that patient information was obtained by the hackers.