Ransomware and the Healthcare Industry

Nathan Reilly, Kate Driscoll, and Melissa Crespo authored an article for Compliance Today discussing the impact of ransomware attacks on healthcare organizations.

“Ransomware attacks on healthcare providers threaten not only patients’ privacy and the economic well-being of the providers, but they also can compromise healthcare outcomes and facilities’ ability to care for those in need,” the authors wrote. “Healthcare organizations have been and remain prime targets for these attacks as they maintain valuable electronic sensitive personal health records and provide critical, often lifesaving, services that require continued access to systems. This trend, and the corresponding exponential growth in the economic cost of ransomware – predicted earlier to have reached $20 billion in 2021 – show no sign of slowing.”

Read the full article.