CSOonline

Ransomware, healthcare and incident response: Lessons from the Allscripts attack

The actors behind SamSam launched a devastating attack against Allscripts in January, 2018. As Allscripts worked its incident response plan, things started to unravel. Here are the lessons learned. On ...
CSOonline

Customers describe the impact of the Allscripts ransomware attack

A ransomware attack against a SaaS provider hurts customers, but when it’s a healthcare company that’s hit, patients suffer. Such was the case with January’s attack against Allscripts, one of the ...
HHS

Allscripts Lawsuit: What Makes It Different?

A class action lawsuit filed against Allscripts in the wake of a ransomware attack that recently disrupted patient care at hundreds of healthcare practices will spotlight a variety of critical ...
Becker's Hospital Review

Here’s how Allscripts recovered from its January ransomware attack: 12 takeaways

In January, Allscripts clients were locked out of their cloud-based EHRs for days when the security operations center was crippled by a ransomware variant known as SamSam — a favorite among hackers ...
Fierce Healthcare

Physician practices report lost revenue and patient care disruptions following Allscripts ransomware attack

Several of the 1,500 physician practices impacted by the Allscripts attack say they are struggling to manage disruptions to patient care. (Getty/monkeybusinessimages) Six days after a ransomware ...
Entrepreneur

Does Allscripts Healthcare Solutions Deserve a Place in Your Portfolio?

The shares of electronic health records company Allscripts Healthcare (MDRX) have generated solid momentum over the past months on the back of earnings and revenue growth across all the company’s ...