Here are links to important stories for Healthcare Enterprises. Check back often as we update this on a regular basis.
March, 2025
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Blackout Blueprint: Making 2025 the Year of Downtime Resiliency: Healthlink Advisors emphasize the importance of operational readiness and strategic governance to address catastrophic downtime events. They advocate for proactive planning and robust infrastructure to ensure continuous patient care during unexpected system outages
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Why Healthcare Organizations Need a Downtime Solution in 2025: Dbtech discusses the critical need for comprehensive downtime solutions in healthcare organizations. They highlight risks associated with EHR downtime, including compromised patient safety and financial losses, and propose proactive measures such as data backups and redundant systems to mitigate these risks.
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Legacy Systems 34 Leaders Are Ditching in 2025: Becker’s Hospital Review reports on healthcare leaders moving away from outdated legacy systems towards more agile, intelligent, and secure technologies. This transition aims to enhance responsiveness and reduce vulnerabilities associated with system downtimes.
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Quick Safety 41: Emergency Management: Need for Continuity of Operations Planning: The Joint Commission underscores the necessity of continuity of operations planning (COOP) in healthcare organizations. Effective COOP ensures resilience by enabling organizations to protect, respond, recover, and restore essential patient care services during emergencies.
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Are You Down with Downtime Processes? A Quality Improvement Project for Downtime Process in Nursing Utilizing an Escape Room: This quality improvement project explores the use of simulation and gamification techniques, such as escape rooms, to enhance nursing staff’s readiness and knowledge in managing downtime procedures, thereby improving overall response during system outages.
February, 2025
More Downtime for Healthcare Providers Thanks to Cyberattacks
Healthcare Increasingly Seen as Soft Targets for Cybercrimes
Healthcare Providers Face Stiffer Cyber Rules Even as They Cry for Help
January, 2025
The Financial Toll of the Change Hack (Becker’s Hospital Review)
Ransomware attacks cost healthcare $21.9B in downtime (Becker’s Hospital Review)
https://medcitynews.com/2024/12/healthcare-cyberattack-ransomware/
Top Stories from 2024
What We Learned From the Cyberattack on Change Healthcare (msn.com)
Health Systems Increasingly Targets of Cyberattacks But They Can be Ready (insurancejournal.com)
Preparing for downtime: This health system’s return to paper charting (beckershospitalreview.com)
H1, 2024 Healthcare Data Breach Report (hipaajournal.com)
Average Cost of a Data Breach Rises to $4.88M; Falls to $9.77M in Healthcare (hipaajournal.com)
HHS Restructures to Consolidate Technology, Cybersecurity, Data, AI, and HealthIT (hipaajournal.com)
McLaren’s IT disruption a ‘criminal cyberattack’ (beckershospitalreview.com)
Editorial: Why Cyber Fire Drills are an Imperative for Healthcare (hipaajournal.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)
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)
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
