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Cyber Insights Today September 17, 2024
Privacy and Security
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I am Richard Freiberg. Today we will be addressing an update to litigation on a ransomware attack which caused the death of a newborn baby as a follow up to a previous newsletter in part 2 of a 2 part series.
Outside the U.S., initial reports linked https://ifsh.de/en/news-detail/the-duesseldorf-cyber-incident a September 2020 ransomware attack that affected University Hospital Düsseldorf with the death of a German patient whose emergency care was allegedly disrupted, but the disruption was later determined not to be directly related to the incident. This was also covered in the link above
The motion filed by the plaintiff gives the impression that both sides entered into a binding agreement. As you are aware, Courts always look to the four corners of a document when enforcing an agreement. If something was left out, then they should have raised it sooner. Springhill might have demanded that certain language be added to the settlement terms for a couple of possible reasons – the hospital’s insurance policies and liability from other patients who may file a class action.
What is significant about the Springhill case Is that healthcare providers are still largely unaware that cybersecurity incidents can and will impact the provision of healthcare services, and that cybersecurity failure related allegations will be easier to litigate than medical malpractice.
Discovery requests to defendant healthcare providers in these actions will be nearly identical to those in data breach class actions, which are now well established
Meanwhile, patient safety concerns involving hospital ransomware attacks are a growing worry in the healthcare sector.
In fact, in late May a labor union representing nurses and other medical professionals who work at Ascension Providence Rochester Hospital in Michigan has signed a petition demanding that Ascension take actions to protect patient safety in the wake of a May 8 cyberattack that took out electronic health records and other IT systems, forcing clinicians to use time-intensive manual processes and paper charts
Also, new research in the Journal of the American Medical Association that analyzes disruptive ransomware attacks against hospitals in California from 2014 to 2020 found a temporary decrease in emergency department visits and inpatient admissions in hospitals targeted by attacks and a corresponding temporary increase in emergency department visits to nearby hospitals that were not attacked.
The findings suggest that the consequences of ransomware attacks are broader than the targeted hospital and affect healthcare providers in the nearby regions.
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Crazy how cyber issues affect everything!