Becker's Hospital Review

54 CIO / HEALTH IT Aspire Health hacked in phishing scheme, seeks to subpoena Google for more details By Julie Spitzer N ashville, Tenn.-based Aspire Health lost some patient information to an unknown cyberattacker who gained access to its internal email system in Septem- ber, federal court records filed Sept. 25 and reviewed by e Tennessean revealed. Aer the hacker broke into Aspire's email systems using email phishing tactics on Sept. 3, 124 emails were forwarded to an external email account. ose emails contained "con- fidential and proprietary information and files" and "protected health information," ac- cording to the court records. No additional details regarding the contents of the hacked emails have been made public, and it's unclear how many patients were af- fected. However, in a prepared statement ob- tained by e Tennessean, Aspire said it alert- ed a "small handful" of patients who "may have been impacted." An Aspire spokesperson told the publication that the company immediately locked the compromised email account aer discover- ing the attack. e phishing attack originated from a website with an Eastern European IP address that lists Google as the registrar. Google flagged the website as "deceptive," and the site now warns visitors that they may be tricked into sharing their personal information. Aspire sought voluntary help from Google to identify the hacker, but Google refused and told Aspire it would need a subpoena. On Sept. 25, Aspire filed a federal court mo- tion to subpoena Google for more informa- tion on the unknown hacker, referred to as John Doe 1 in the court documents. "e proposed subpoena to Google should provide information showing who has ac- cessed and/or maintains the phishing website and the subscriber of the email account that John Doe 1 used in the phishing attack," As- pire attorney James Haltom wrote. "is in- formation will likely allow Aspire to uncover and locate John Doe 1." Aspire, which operates in 25 states and the District of Columbia, is a home healthcare business that connects patients with palliative care physicians. n AI to save healthcare $150B by 2025: 5 report insights By Jessica Kim Cohen A rtificial intelligence and cognitive computing will generate more than $150 billion in savings for the healthcare industry by 2025, according to a report by the market research firm Frost & Sullivan. Here are five insights into the healthcare AI market from the report: 1. Healthcare AI adoption has been slow worldwide. Today, only 15 per- cent to 20 percent of health IT end users have actively used AI to drive changes in healthcare delivery. 2. In the next three to five years, AI adoption will rise "dramatically," ac- cording to Frost & Sullivan, thanks in part to companies like IBM, Micro- soft, Google, Philips, GE Healthcare, Amazon and Salesforce, which are offering cost-effective support for these technologies. 3. The most common use cases for AI in healthcare are to improve med- ical imaging, personalized medicine, disease prediction, clinical docu- mentation and revenue cycle management. 4. The global healthcare AI market will reach $6.16 billion by 2022, grow- ing at a compound annual growth rate of 68.5 percent. 5. The U.S. is the global "hub" of healthcare AI, and performs well across various maturity metrics, from investment to end-user adoption. China is also dominant in the AI space, while Japan and India are growing their AI footprints. Europe has struggled to maintain a stronghold in AI due to the region's more restrictive data policies. n Cyberattack forces Indiana hospital to cancel elective surgeries, divert ambulances By Julie Spitzer L utheran Hospital in Fort Wayne, Ind., canceled all remaining elective sur- geries around 4:30 p.m. Sept. 18, af- ter its IT team discovered a computer virus, wane.com reported. The Lutheran Health Network IT staff stopped the virus in the afternoon, but phones and computers were "taken down" as a precaution, according to the report. In addition to canceling its remaining elec- tive cases for the day, the hospital diverted incoming ambulances elsewhere. All can- celed surgeries were to be rescheduled, the spokesperson told wane.com. The attack affected all Lutheran Health Net- work facilities, but Lutheran Hospital was the only facility put on ambulance diversion. n

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