November 27, 2023 at 12:56PM Ardent Health Services, a healthcare provider with 30 hospitals across six U.S. states, experienced a ransomware attack, leading to the entire network being taken offline. Impacted hospitals are diverting emergency care to other facilities while still providing medical screening and stabilizing care. Non-urgent elective surgeries have been temporarily halted. Ardent … Read more
October 25, 2023 at 02:41PM A cyberattack on shared service provider TransForm has disrupted operations in five hospitals in Ontario, Canada, forcing patients to reschedule appointments. TransForm, a not-for-profit organization founded by five hospitals, released a statement confirming the IT systems outage caused by the cyberattack. The cause and extent of the incident are under … Read more
October 24, 2023 at 10:18AM A cyberattack on TransForm, a shared service provider for five hospitals in Ontario, Canada, has led to operational disruptions, impacting patient care and causing appointment rescheduling. The hospitals affected are Windsor Regional Hospital, Hotel Dieu Grace, Erie Shores Healthcare, Hospice of Windsor-Essex, and Chatham-Kent Health Alliance. Patients with scheduled appointments … Read more
October 16, 2023 at 08:35PM Connected medical devices are vulnerable to cyber attacks, endangering patient data and operations. Palo Alto Networks found that 75% of infusion pumps had at least one security flaw. Hospitals can enhance defenses by maintaining visibility of assets, identifying device exposures, implementing a zero trust approach, using virtual patching for legacy … Read more