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FDA releases cybersecurity guidance
The FDA released a draft of its updated premarket guidance for medical device cybersecurity Oct. 18, adding new recommendations for internet-connected products. - 10/19/18 -
Report: Successful cyberattacks cost healthcare organizations $6M each year
Fifty-six percent of healthcare organizations have been compromised by an endpoint attack in the last year, slightly less than the 64 percent of organizations across industries that reported so, according to a recent report sponsored by endpoint security company Barkly. - 10/18/18 -
FDA signs agreement with Homeland Security to improve medical device security
The FDA and the Department of Homeland Security signed a memorandum of agreement as part of a joint effort to address threats to medical device security, particularly among internet-connected products. - 10/18/18 -
Phishing attack at North Carolina hospital compromises 3 employee email accounts
Catawba Valley Medical Center in Hickory, N.C., began mailing notification letters to an undisclosed number of patients Oct. 12 after it discovered an unauthorized user had gained access to three of its employees' email accounts. - 10/17/18 -
HITRUST rolls out program to help startups with privacy, security
HITRUST, a security standards development and accreditation organization, launched the RightStart Program on Oct. 9 to help startups adopt privacy and security measures. - 10/17/18 -
HHS updates security risk assessment tool
A security risk assessment tool for hospitals and other HIPAA-covered entities boasts new usability features, thanks to updates from two HHS agencies. - 10/17/18 -
How cyberhardening can reduce risk to the entire medical community
An average hospital room can house as many as 20 medical devices, and almost all of them will be networked – either wired or wirelessly. - 10/16/18 -
5 things to know about IBM's mobile cybersecurity training program
IBM is taking cybersecurity education to the streets with what it calls the first mobile security operations center, the company said Oct. 15. - 10/16/18 -
Minnesota human services department struck by 2 separate phishing attacks
The Minnesota Department of Human Services is notifying 21,000 individuals about a potential compromise of their personal information after it discovered an authorized third party gained access to two email accounts on two separate occasions, according to KSTP. - 10/16/18 -
Anthem's $16M HIPAA settlement largest in history
Anthem will pay HHS $16 million to settle potential HIPAA violations related to cyberattacks that compromised the health information of nearly 79 million people in 2015, HHS said Oct. 15. - 10/16/18 -
It takes healthcare organizations 55 days to detect a breach, survey finds
Although healthcare organizations tend to identify breaches more quickly than companies in other industries, they take longer to contain the attack, according to a recent survey sponsored by IBM. - 10/15/18 -
Bad actor infiltration in the supply chain + lack of security awareness: Moffitt Cancer Center's CISO answers 4 Qs on cybersecurity threats
Dave Summitt, chief information security officer and director of cybersecurity operations at Tampa, Fla.-based Moffitt Cancer Center, discusses the importance of proper risk assessment and security awareness in hospital cybersecurity. - 10/15/18 -
10 informative Q&As with hospital and health system CISOs
Here are 10 feature interviews with hospital and healthcare system chief information security officers and cybersecurity experts. - 10/9/18 -
Hartford HealthCare gives woman wrong health records
After returning from an appointment at a Hartford HealthCare outpatient facility in Manchester, Conn., Jennifer Wylie found the hospital had provided her with 10 pages of another patient's medical records along with her own paperwork, according to WFSB report. - 10/9/18 -
Confusion around FDA policies hinders medical device security, report suggests
Hospital IT executives are split in their confidence when it comes to medical device security, according to a joint report from KLAS Research and the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives published Oct. 5. - 10/5/18 -
Toyota notifies 19K employees, health plan members of PHI breach
Toyota Industries North America is notifying 19,000 current and former employees and health plan participants about a data security incident affecting their personal and protected health information, the company said Sept. 28. - 10/5/18 -
Missouri medical billing company notifies patients of HIPAA breach
A Kansas City, Mo.-based medical billing firm reported a HIPAA breach affecting patients at a pulmonary and critical care center in Lincoln, Neb., according to the Lincoln Journal Star. - 10/4/18 -
Woman says Scripps Health keeps sending her other patients' health records
Scripps Health in San Diego has sent a local woman other patients' medical records on three separate occasions, even though she has reported the issue, according to ABC 10 News. - 10/4/18 -
5 Houston area hospitals recover patient medical records found on street
Hundreds of documents containing patients' protected health information and belonging to five Houston area hospitals were recently found on a sidewalk by a KHOU11 employee. - 10/4/18 -
Gwinnett Medical Center: Some patient information exposed on Twitter
Lawrenceville, Ga.-based Gwinnett Medical Center is investigating a security incident involving the names, dates of birth and genders of 40 patients that were exposed on Twitter after being accessed by an unauthorized user, a hospital spokesperson confirmed to Becker's Hospital Review Oct. 3. - 10/3/18
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