Cybersecurity

The White House Office of National Drug Control Policy announced on June 12 the eight finalists in the first stage of the Opioid Detection Challenge, which is offering $1.55 million in prizes for an automated tool to detect opioids in…

Humana has notified 5,569 members of a security incident that may have exposed members' personal information.

Many hospitals — 83 percent — have seen an influx in the number of cyberattacks in the past year, according to a survey by cybersecurity firm Carbon Black.

Quest Diagnostics and Laboratory Corp. of America will likely not face any reputational damages or client losses following a data breach that exposed the information of nearly 20 million patients combined because they have such strong positions in the clinical…

Kingman (Ariz.) Regional Medical Center is notifying patients of a potential security incident that has left its website down since April 8, the Daily Miner reports.

The Vermont Supreme Court has ruled that patients can file lawsuits against hospitals and employees for privacy breaches, according to the HIPAA Journal.

For hospitals and health systems looking to overhaul or update their security infrastructure, there are three things to consider, according to Fawn Staerkel, director of strategic accounts at Johnson Controls and cited by Campus Safety Magazine.

Grand Rapids, Mich.-based Mercy Health began notifying approximately 1,000 patients on May 24 about a data breach that may have exposed patient data, according to mlive.com.

Senators have begun investigating the Quest Diagnostic and Laboratory Corp. of America vendor data breach that exposed nearly 20 million patients, according to The Hill.

Opko Health is the third healthcare company to learn its patients were affected in the American Medical Collection Agency data breach, according to Reuters.