Cybersecurity

Kolaleh Eskandanian, PhD, is the vice president and chief innovation officer of Children's National Health System in Washington, D.C.

Although there is mounting pressure to keep data secure within healthcare organizations, nearly one-third of healthcare employees said they have never received cybersecurity training, according to a new report released Aug. 20.

Sonoma (Calif.) Valley Hospital was forced to change the name of its website URL and email addresses after its domain, svh.com, was hijacked Aug. 6, Sonoma Index-Tribune reports.

Integrated Regional Laboratories in Florida began notifying around 30,000 patients that their health information may have been exposed in the American Medical Collection Agency data breach, according to the HIPAA Journal.

Tempe-based Arizona State University began notifying 4,000 students Aug. 16 that their email addresses "were accidentally" revealed in a data breach, according to CBS affiliate KTVK.

Danbury-based Western Connecticut Health Network began notifying an unknown number of patients Aug. 19 about a shipping incident that may have exposed their personal health information, according to the News Times.

Although 45 percent of healthcare CIOs in a 2018 Datica survey said their organizations are developing cloud applications, 50 percent said they were concerned about the security and regulatory compliance of cloud vendors, according to Business Insider.

Vinton, Iowa-based Virginia Gay Hospital is alerting an unknown number of patients about a phishing attack that may have exposed their protected health information.

Blockchain technology can be leveraged to improve data privacy and security because administrators share real-time data on a permission basis, according to a Big Market Research report cited by The Innovative Reports.

Around 3,200 Ann Arbor-based Michigan Medicine employees were targets in a phishing attack. Of those employees, three responded to the phishing emails, which may have exposed patient information, according to the HIPAA Journal.