As cyberattacks on healthcare organizations increase across the country, hospitals in Wyoming are dealing with malware attacks "weekly, if not daily," according to a Dec. 12 Casper Star Tribune report.
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Hospital and health system executive should be aware of Zeppelin, a new ransomware that is targeting healthcare and technology companies throughout Europe and the U.S., according to Silicon Angle.
The Cancer Center of Hawaii on Oahu announced Dec. 11 that it had to temporarily suspend cancer radiation services at two treatment centers due to a ransomware attack, according to the Honolulu Civil Beat.
Greenly, Colo-based Sunrise Community Health is notifying an undisclosed number of patients about a security incident that may have exposed their protected health information.
Dixon, Ill.-based Katherine Shaw Bethea Hospital began notifying 1,486 patients of a data breach that may have exposed their protected health information.
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While a stolen flash drive left the University of Rochester Medical Center with a multimillion-dollar settlement payment, other HIPAA cases were brought on due to improper data breach disclosures.
A group of healthcare-focused venture capital firms has partnered with HITRUST, a security standards development and accreditation organization, to develop a set of best practices governing digital health startups' data security, TechCrunch reports.
Phoenix-based Banner Health has agreed to pay $6 million to patients involved in a class-action lawsuit over a 2016 data breach, according to BankInfoSecurity.com.
The Florida Board of Medicine ordered Michael Hall, MD, to pay $10,000 Dec. 6 for allegedly posting the personal health information of a former patient on Yelp, according to Florida Politics.
In its deal with Amazon, the United Kingdom's National Health Service has provided the online retail and technology giant with free access to healthcare information, according to The Guardian.