Ascension Healthcare, a hospital system in the United States, has become the victim of a reported cyberattack. This breach has disrupted patient care operations. However, Ascension released a statement acknowledging the issue and its commitment to addressing the situation.
Yahoo Finance’s Anjalee Khemlani breaks down the details, providing insights into the broader landscape of cyber threats faced by healthcare entities.
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Video Transcript
Just months after United Health Care was hit by a cyber attack.Another health care provider is facing a breach and patient care was affected here with more.We’ve got Yahoo Finance’s Angelique Kamlani Angel.What do we know about this most recent one here?Yeah, Brian.So this one is a little bit different because it is an actual hospital network rather than the insurer and the underlying payment pipeline.So by scale, the attack on ascension that was that happened yesterday was a little bit smaller, but still important to note that this is part the broader problem.The health care industry has been racking up the cyber attacks.They’ve been noting them for quite some time.Ascension is one of those larger hospital systems in the US and known it exists, and it has facilities in more than a dozen states, and it has 100 and 40 hospitals in these, as you can see on your map, these states, it also includes 40 senior living facilities and by size is a 28 billion, a new system so quite large on the scale of the country.The company did say in a statement that there has been a disruption to clinical operations as they continue to assess the impact, they noted.It happened yesterday and they are still in the throes of trying to figure it out.We’re looking, you know, by comparison, we know that the United health care attack was much larger, right?The company is looking at already 1.6 billion impact for the year, and it it really stopped the flow of payments as well as some appointments as well as some pharmacies for several weeks.Meanwhile, we do see the clinical interruption for care for ascension, and it’s unclear how long that will last and any other details.Right now, those are still being assessed, but back to the point about this is part of the larger picture.The Health and Human Services Department has noted that between 2018 and 2022 there was a rise by 93% in cyber attacks, and of those 8 200 I believe it was 78% increase of those breaches that included ransomware.So we’re talking about a really big problem in the country that has been highlighted by the United Health care Change health care impact.Um, and then now we’re starting to see just how you know, prevalent.It is just by this, a few months later, this same attack right now.All right.A huge investigation that’s gonna be ongoing.Angeli.We appreciate you setting the scene, breaking it down for us.Here.Appreciate it.You finance his own Angeli Klan.
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