A “cybersecurity incident” at Heywood Healthcare forced it to halt all emergency services at one of its hospitals. Details on what happened remain largely unclear. 

The incident at Methodist Homes is now over a year old but was only recently disclosed to the public. The nature of the data breach remains unknown; however, it has been confirmed that hackers accessed protected health information.

The 2025 HLTH convention in Las Vegas, held at the Venetian Expo Center, brought together vendors, researchers and healthcare providers for four days of presentations, panels, awards and industry announcements. Here's a selection of news from the show floor. 

The two companies said their model for exchanging payer and provider data will be “easily replicable” and could be adopted across the healthcare space. The initial rollout of the system will be focused on automatically identifying Medicare Advantage patients. 

Up to 72% of CT requisitions from ED providers could be considered inadequate according to RI-RADS, which was developed to evaluate the clinical reasoning quality of imaging orders.

Researchers with the University of Virginia recently aimed to answer this question, sharing their findings in the Journal of Imaging Informatics in Medicine. 

The ransomware attack on Integris Health, a nonprofit health system in Oklahoma, happened in late 2023. Victims of the breach said they were extorted by hackers directly.

In a new report, Proofpoint and the Ponemon Institute surveyed 677 health IT professionals to understand the impact cybersecurity incidents have on patient care.