By Sarai Rodriguez
June 01, 2023 – While more primary care practices are screening patients for social risk, the cost of social determinants of health (SDOH) interventions targeting housing security, non-emergency medical transportation, and community-based care…
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By Jill McKeon
May 31, 2023 – Morris Hospital & Healthcare Centers, an 89-bed hospital located 55 miles southwest of Chicago, disclosed that it has been investigating a cybersecurity incident. Morris Hospital recently detected unusual activity…
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By Sarai Rodriguez
May 31, 2023 – MCNA Dental, a Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program service provider suffered a major healthcare data breach impacting over 8.9 million individuals, revealing their Social Security numbers and personal…
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Health technology company Pictura Bio has announced that it has been awarded Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) funding to develop a portable prototype of its AI-powered disease testing platform for use in military settings,…
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A group of federal agencies recently released an updated set of guidelines to help healthcare organizations protect themselves from ransomware attacks and the data breaches that often follow.
The guide was authored by the Federal…
When Ordr recently alerted customers to a vulnerability in the Apache Log4j logging utility, Franciscan Alliance was able to identify which of its medical devices could have been impacted and segment them until a…
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By Jill McKeon
May 30, 2023 – The American Hospital Association (AHA) urged the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) to reconsider its December 2022 Online Tracking Guidance, suggesting that its definition of protected health information…
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Cybersecurity authorities issue a warning about a state-sponsored group known as Volt Typhoon, linked to the People’s Republic of China, using hidden network administration tools. While not an immediate threat to U.S. healthcare, the…
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Point32Health, the parent organization of Harvard Pilgrim Health Care and other insurance plans, announced that data was copied and taken from the healthcare payer’s systems during a cyber breach that occurred between March 28 and April…
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By Jill McKeon
May 26, 2023 – Kentucky-based Norton Healthcare is responding to and recovering from a cyber incident that began on May 9 and led to longer phone wait times and delays in network-related capabilities….
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