Cybersecurity

Amazon Web Services Marketplace will now offer cloud-based disaster recovery service OpSus Recover in its digital catalog. 

Patients want providers to give them the option to opt-out or into data sharing, according to a patient survey from the American Medical Association. 

The HHS Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center issued an alert July 21 about an increase in web application attacks on the healthcare sector. 

Plymouth, Mass.-based Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital and human resources management company Ultimate Kronos Group are being sued for a December 2021 ransomware attack that compromised patients' protected health information and a number of health systems' payroll systems. 

The National Institute of Standards and Technology released new guidelines to help agencies comply with HIPAA's security rule governing electronic protected health information.

Several health systems have reported data breach incidents that have compromised patient data and IT systems during July. 

More than half of healthcare organizations have been targeted by hackers in the past year, with most organizations feeling ill-prepared for such attacks, according to a survey from digital security company SecureLink.

The HHS Office for Civil Rights data breach portal showed that there have been 337 healthcare data breaches impacting more than 500 individuals each in the first half of 2022, according to healthcare cybersecurity Fortified Health Security's mid-year report. 

Primary care practice Benson (N.C.) Health has provided notice of a cyberattack involving an unauthorized party trying to access Benson Health's network.

Toledo, Ohio-based ProMedica reported that an email that was misrouted in May exposed the protected health information of 1,178 patients, according to WTVG 13, an ABC affiliate.