Cyberattack fallout: Ascension and DocGo troubles ricochet

Cyberattack fallout: Ascension and DocGo troubles ricochet

Also: CommonSpirit reports increased earnings in the year after a major ransomware disruption and widespread data breach. Photo: francescoridolfi.com/Getty Images After cyberattacks, large healthcare organizations must grapple with system clean-up and data breaches, potentially harming patient care due to service disruptions, exacting  costs  and garnering regulatory scrutiny on security vulnerabilities.  This week we learned that the May 8 attack on Ascension left a former hospital with systems outages for operations yet to be migrated to its new owner, the Guthrie Clinic, and an attack on DocGo exposed U.S. patient data. Despite the breach, DocGo said it expects record profits this year, while CommonSpirit reported improved financial results a year and a half after its massive patient data breach, crediting telehealth and other measures for increased efficiencies. Ascension attack snares Guthrie hospital On the day of the ransomware attack on Ascension, Guthrie Lourdes Hospital in Binghamto…