Following an investigation into the breach of the protected health information of 206,695 individuals, the Office of Civil Rights announced a settlement with Doctors’ Management Services – which provides medical billing, payor credentialing and…
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Participate in the 2023 HIMSS Healthcare Cybersecurity Survey, where privacy and security experts share insights on staffing challenges, ransomware, AI, and more. HIMSS seeks input from IT and information security leaders to tackle complex…
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CISA and HC3 have issued critical warnings on emerging cybersecurity threats. CISA emphasizes five new vulnerabilities and a list of ransomware-related misconfigurations. HC3 alerts healthcare organizations about “NoEscape” ransomware with unique shared encryption, evolving…
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The Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center, or HC3, warned this week about a new ransomware that has a shared encryption feature designed to entice ransomware with the promise of streamlined data recovery. Meanwhile, the…
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At HIMSS 23 we chatted with Steve Cagle, CEO of Clearwater, to discuss their latest announcement. Clearwater has received a patent for their groundbreaking predictive risk rating technology, a feature integrated into their software….
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Rural Healthcare Organizations Need Security Support
Healthcare access is already a challenge for rural communities across the country. The threat of a cyberattack is yet another immense weight for these independent health systems to juggle.
Many…
Blackbaud served 35,000 nonprofit fundraising entities, including many healthcare organizations, when it was infected in 2020 with ransomware and data – personally identifiable information and protected health information like admission and discharge dates and…
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The following is a guest article by Jonathan Goldberger, Senior Vice President, Security Practices & Strategic Sales at TPx
Hospitals face the threat of cyberattacks daily and each attack threatens the hospital’s public brand and,…
Cybersecurity Gets Better When It’s Everyone’s Responsibility
There’s a statistic that holds true across industries: more than 80 percent of breaches are unintentional, meaning that people cause them accidentally. No matter what controls are in…
A vCISO usually works offsite, away from the rest of an organization, notes Jason Kemmerer, solution architect at Forcepoint.“A virtual CISO is an executive who is responsible for the oversight of an organization’s security…
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