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Here are links to important stories for Healthcare Enterprises. Check back often as we update this on a regular basis.

July News

Editorial: Why Cyber Fire Drills are an Imperative for Healthcare (hipaajournal.com)

Hospital IT Teams Still Working to Resolve CrowdStrike-Related Outage Issues | Healthcare Innovation (hcinnovationgroup.com)

How Friday’s CrowdStrike outage impacted healthcare providers (advisory.com)

Return-to-paper playbook: How hospital leaders can plan for downtime (beckershospitalreview.com) 

Hackers targeting healthcare in order to divert payments (beckershospitalreview.com) 

California system IT outage stretches into 2nd month (beckershospitalreview.com) 

June News

Why the Cyberattack on Ascension Scared 5 Hospital Execs & How They’re Responding – MedCity News

Facing the Inevitable: Cyberattacks in Healthcare – The Hospitalist (the-hospitalist.org)

May News

Hospitals still affected by Change hack, AHA says (beckershospitalreview.com)

What it’s like when your EHR shuts down (beckershospitalreview.com)

Why hospitals are tight-lipped about cyberattacks (beckershospitalreview.com)

Have EHRs been good for healthcare? (beckershospitalreview.com)

Cyberattack disrupts clinical operations at Ascension (beckershospitalreview.com)

Cyberattack forces major US health care network to divert ambulances from hospitals | CNN Business

Cyberattack disrupts operations at Wichita Ascension hospitals – KAKE

Ascension expects IT outages ‘for some time’ (beckershospitalreview.com)

Ascension confirms ransomware attack (beckershospitalreview.com)

How the ransomware group linked to Ascension hack operates (beckershospitalreview.com)

Health systems laying off IT workers (beckershospitalreview.com)

Hospital still recovering from cyberattack 2 ½ years later (beckershospitalreview.com)

Ascension faces 1st lawsuits over ransomware attack (beckershospitalreview.com)

SAAQ resuming services after downed computer server closed branches, online services (msn.com)

Ascension enlists cyber experts to combat ransomware attack fallout (beckershospitalreview.com)

Nurses call for pause on healthcare AI (beckershospitalreview.com)

17 quick notes on healthcare (beckershospitalreview.com)

HHS puts $50M toward hospitals’ ransomware fight (beckershospitalreview.com)

Healthcare cyber attacks have surged in 2024 — this new program aims to improve security | ITPro

April News

Business continuity plan testing scenarios that can save a business (invenioit.com)

Get the Ultimate Business Continuity Plan Template (invenioit.com)

Cybercriminals pose as hospital finance employees, divert payments (beckershospitalreview.com)

How UnitedHealth handled crisis communications after Change hack (beckershospitalreview.com)

Social Engineering Campaign Targets Hospital IT Helpdesks (hipaajournal.com)

10 ransomware groups frequently targeting healthcare (beckershospitalreview.com)

Nova Scotia Health Authority cancels blood collection appointments Friday (yahoo.com)

Hackers start selling Change Healthcare data (beckershospitalreview.com)

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