North Carolina and 15 other states have reached a $900,000 settlement with Medical Informatics Engineering after a data breach from the EHR provider exposed the information of 3.9 million people, according to a May 23 news release from North Carolina…
Cybersecurity news for hospitals and health systems
Healthcare cybersecurity news covering breaches, ransomware and the hospital cyberattacks that shut down clinical operations. Becker's tracks how health systems detect, respond and spend to prevent the next one.
HP has partnered with Israeli cybersecurity firm Deep Instinct to stop the spread of cyberattacks, according to Reuters.
One of the largest HIPAA settlements so far in 2019 came from Santa Barbara, Calif.-based Cottage Health, which agreed to pay $3 million in February.
Centennial, Colo.-based Centura Health began notifying 7,515 patients last week that their information may have been exposed due to a phishing attack.
A previously leaked cyberweapon created by the National Security Agency has been confirmed as the source for Baltimore's ransomware attack, according to The New York Times.
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Often when hospitals or health systems violate HIPAA rules, they are required to pay hefty fines.
Cincinnati-based TriHealth has alerted 2,433 patients that their data may have been shared with a student mentee in June 2018.
Baltimore city officials that turned to Gmail accounts as a workaround after being hit with a ransomware attack May 7 had their email accounts disabled by Google, according to The Baltimore Sun.
Medical Informatics Engineering, a medical records service provider, agreed to pay the Office for Civil Rights at HHS $100,000 to settle a HIPAA breach.
Inmediata Health Group, a healthcare clearinghouse company, has notified its customers of a data breach that may have exposed the personal information of more than 1.5 million people.