Connecticut’s Largest Healthcare System Compromised
Yale New Haven Health System (YNHHS) has reported a massive data breach affecting approximately 5.6 million individuals to federal regulators. This incident currently stands as the largest healthcare data breach…
Farqad Moshili, Graphiant Engineering Staff
The evolving cyber threat landscape has driven the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to propose significant updates to the HIPAA Security Rule, a first in 12 years, with more stringent…
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Garrett Weber, Field CTO – Enterprise Security at Akamai Technologies
In today’s cybersecurity landscape, the stakes have never been higher especially for organizations in the healthcare industry. Data breaches and ransomware attacks are not just…
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Micky Tripathi, the former assistant secretary for technology policy at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and National Coordinator for Health IT, has reportedly accepted a new post overseeing artificial intelligence at Mayo Clinic. We…
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Major Reorganization Disrupts Federal Healthcare Operations
The sweeping reorganization at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has eliminated entire departments with little explanation about how critical IT and digital infrastructure will be…
With the reorganization of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced last week, there’s been little explanation of why whole departments have been cut. There’s also been no analyses shared on how…
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Mass layoffs at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), including the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), will impact the medical device regulatory process, says Ben Wolf, partner in Alston & Bird’s…
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This week, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) underwent a massive restructuring under its secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., resulting in the sudden departure of thousands of employees across the nation.
While Kennedy…
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Last December, the Department of Health and Human Services proposed a rule that would make data encryption a standard and not optional across healthcare organizations that store and transfer patient health information.
In the…
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What You Should Know:
– The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has announced a significant restructuring initiative, undertaken in accordance with President Trump’s Executive Order, “Implementing the President’s ‘Department of Government Efficiency’…
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