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Nebraska Medicine and the University of Nebraska Medical Center have just begun notifying 219,000 individuals of a hacking incident that was discovered last September. The lag between breach discovery and notification illustrates the difficulties organizations often face in incident response, some security experts say.
Nebraska Medicine/UNMC says in a statement posted earlier this month that on Sept. 20, 2020, it identified unusual network activity that affected some of its IT systems.
Nebraska Medicine/UNMC then initiated incident response protocols to minimize any disruption to patients and isolated potentially impacted devices and shut off select systems as a precaution, the statement says. We also initiated an investigation, computer forensic experts were engaged to assist our ongoing investigation and we notified law enforcement.
By Julia Bertino
Feb 12, 2021
(Omaha, NE) Nebraska Medicine is the first hospital in the nation to implant a new type of cardiac stent.
On Thursday, Dr. Yiannis Chatzizisis, chief interventional cardiology, Dr. Gregory Pavlides and Dr. Edward O’Leary implanted the Synergy Megatron stent for the first time ever in the United States. The Megatron stent is designed to fit larger vessels and allow more flexibility. Nebraska Med says in separate successful procedures, two women in their early 60 s became the first patients in the nation to receive Megatron, a stent created by Boston Scientific.
“The Megatron coronary stent is a paradigm shift in interventional cardiology as it introduces for the first time the concept of using stents specifically designed for specific parts of heart arteries. This is truly a 21st century precision medicine approach,” says Dr. Chatzizisis. “Megatron’s unique design makes the stent stronger and more expandable, and thereby ideal for lar
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Nebraska Medicine and the University of Nebraska Medical Center are notifying patients and employees whose personal information may have been compromised in a data security breach last fall. The Omaha World-Herald reports that the breach may have affected up to 219,000 people in Nebraska and other states. Health system officials said in a statement that [.]