But, if people are squeamish about that, I present this as an alternative:
Posted on 08/04/2023 8:01:54 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Hospitals and clinics in five states are facing disruptions due to a cyberattack Thursday that forced some emergency rooms to close.
The attack began at facilities operated by Prospect Medical Holdings. The company’s facilities in California, Texas, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Pennsylvania were affected by the cyberattack.
“Upon learning of this, we took our systems offline to protect them and launched an investigation with the help of third-party cybersecurity specialists,” the company said in a statement Friday.
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But Joe begged Vladimir to not hit our hospitals.
If E.R.’s can’t run a background check and your credit, you can’t be seen or treated !!
They became unable to bill $98.77 for two aspirin and $3.84 for the paper cup in which they were served.
Probably every medical facility uses THIRD PARTY internet outfits.
All data flows with third party oversight. No way we have kept the Chinese and hackers out of those ‘third-party’ connections.
But, if people are squeamish about that, I present this as an alternative:
Good thing this was limited to just a few hospitals.
Wouldn’t want this to affect things like the Most Secure Election In History, in 2020 (or 2022, or 2018, or 2016, or ...)
The joys of centralized medical information.
I’d agree with the majority of these attacks originate somewhere. However, that somewhere is Clowns In America (and their ilk).
How about the idiot employees that cannot exist clicking on the link that lets the malware in.?
And it seems the hospitals do not have adequate back up "paper" systems and/or the employees cannot be troubled to use them.
Anyone who isn’t blocking all netblocks from Asia Pacific and Russia at the firewall is asking for trouble.
Sounds about right.
My wife got an $1800 bill for an electrocardiogram from Prisma. That seems way high and I have BCBS.
We are going to try to get an itemized bill. MyChart doesn’t have it.
A friend of a friend who had some surgery got double billed by the anesthesiologist and had to contest it.
Oregon’s public health plan recently got hacked. 1.7 million IDs stolen.
BTTT
There are no details in this article. I’m guessing this was a DOS attack.
My family got a few letters yesterday from the local health system warning of an attack that got large amounts of patient data from their computer systems. Everything from Doctors notes to patient payment info.
My nephew has a chronic illness and hasn’t been able to work since 2019. He and his 9 year old daughter are on Medicaid and they are the ones who got the letters.
Oregon’s incompetent state govt strikes again.
Add the call center scammers to the list.
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