Some EHRs Affected; Hospitals Cancel Patient Care in Latest Vendor Mega Incident
The Health Information Sharing and Analysis Center said it is hearing about system outages and disruptions affecting operations across a wide range of activities, said the organization’s chief security officer, Errol Weiss (see: Banks and Airlines Disrupted as Mass Outage Hits Windows PCs).
The outage is affecting patient services, lab collections, secure file transfers, transcription services, shipments, manufacturing, phone systems, electronic medical records, pharmacy orders, Medicaid and insurance billing, 911 communications and more. “Medical devices that rely on Windows are impacted too. Medical procedures are being rescheduled. Hospitals are operating under emergency downtime procedures. Plus, there are reports of third-party and partner disruptions that are impacting operations too,” he said.
“We’re going to see organizations taking cyber resilience more seriously now. It’s not just the need for security, but also making sure critical business operations can still function when systems are down,” said Health ISAC’s Weiss. “Cyber resilience is about quickly identifying, responding and recovering from IT incidents to minimize business impact. Unfortunately, the issue today is an example of how badly things can go when patches and updates go unchecked.”
Read the full article in Healthcare InfoSecurity here:
https://www.healthcareinfosecurity.com/crowdstrikemicrosoft-outage-latest-blow-to-healthcare-a-25815
