Ransomware attacks on healthcare organizations continue to soar. According to IT Governance USA, the healthcare sector reported 280 cyber incidents as of June 2024. At the halfway point of 2024, that figure represented 24% of…
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What You Should Know:
– Selfii, the leader in privacy-preserving health data solutions for individuals and healthcare organizations, today announced the launch of TripleBlind Exchange.
– This is a first-of-its-kind data marketplace enabling secure, HIPAA/GDPR-compliant access…
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The Department of Health and Human Services and the Office for Civil Rights have announced they will be soliciting comments on a proposal to modify the Security Standards for the Protection of Electronic Protected…
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What You Should Know:
– Ransomware attacks are a growing threat across all industries, but the healthcare sector is facing a particularly alarming surge in these incidents, according to new data from SafetyDevices.
– New…
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The Department of Health and Human Services has filed proposed modifications to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 security rule to strengthen the cybersecurity of electronic protected health information with the…
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Providence Medical Institute, a Southern California-based physician services division of the seven-state Providence health system, will pay a $240,000 civil monetary penalty to settle potential HIPAA violations after a ransomware attack.WHY IT MATTERSThe U.S….
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Krista Cataldo, Business Analytics and Insights Lead at Primacy
Dan Campagna, Account Director at Primacy
Implementing web analytics and data collection in healthcare has always required extra caution. By its very nature, collecting a patient’s (or…
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This week brings some positives for hospitals and health systems in the southeast United States that are dependent on blood supplies with critical network systems back online after the August 1 ransomware attack shut the…
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HealthEquity, a provider of health savings accounts, announced the personal and health information of 4.3 million individuals was compromised in a data breach involving an unnamed third-party vendor.WHY IT MATTERSThe breach apparently occurred in…
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As Ascension continues to work toward network-wide restoration of its electronic health record, the 19-state health system this week confirmed that the May 8 ransomware attack that debilitated its IT systems also may have…
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