HealthLeaders Media July 22, 2024
An industry still smarting from the effects of the Change Healthcare cyberattack is reportedly bouncing back quickly from Friday’s global outage.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
– Friday’s outage was caused by “a defect found in a single content update” initiated by the cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike, and affected some 8.5 million Microsoft devices, at least 1 million of which are used by healthcare organizations.
– Most U.S. hospitals and health systems were reporting near-normal business on Monday, as most of the affected devices had been restore dover the weekend.
– Experts say the outage should prompt CIOs and CTOs to take a closer look at their cybersecurity infrastructure.
(Editor’s Note: This artic;e has been updated to include comments from First health Advisory)
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