BOSTON – At the HIMSS Healthcare Cybersecurity Forum on Thursday, Erik Decker, chief information security officer at Intermountain Health, led a discussion with cybersecurity leaders from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services…
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By Jill McKeon
September 07, 2023 – In a document that spans hundreds of pages, HHS and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) published letters sent to 130 healthcare organizations regarding the security and privacy risks of…
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John Berndt, SVP of Health North America, Valtech
Also known as the Kennedy–Kassebaum Act, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) defines and regulates individuals’ medical records and other individually identifiable health…
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Beginning September 1, HHS’ Office of the Inspector General (OIG) will begin enforcing the anti-information blocking regulations laid out in the 21st Century Cures Act. The office finalized penalties to enforce these rules in…
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Through a broad agency announcement about the Scaling Health Applications Research for Everyone solicitation, the U.S. Health and Human Services office of the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health is seeking to adapt Department…
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HHS’s Office for Civil Rights launches a federal civil rights investigation of Vanderbilt University Medical Center for providing Tennessee’s attorney general with the fully identified medical records of transgender patients. Patients who were…
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Mike Hamilton, Founder and CISO of Critical Insight
To stop ransomware terrorists from locking up our Nation’s hospitals, the Federal Government is pushing patient-focused entities to align with a standard. It means more work for…
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The Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center (HC3), which was created by the Department of Health and Human Services, recently warned healthcare providers about a cybercriminal gang called Rhysida.
The group emerged in May — since…
Subscribe for your weekly fix of health tech stories, wherever you get your news: Substack, Twitter, Apple, or Spotify.Todd ParkOur guest on this episode is Todd Park. Todd is the co-founder and Executive Chairman of…
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By Jill McKeon
July 18, 2023 – More than 1.2 million individuals were impacted by a data breach at Pension Benefit Information (PBI) stemming from the widespread cyberattacks waged against Progress Software’s MOVEit Transfer software. The…
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