St. Joseph, Mich.-based Spectrum Health Lakeland is notifying 1,100 patients about a data breach at its billing services vendor that may have put patients' personal information at risk, according to mlive.com.
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.
To fill the shortage of cybersecurity workers, companies are hiring individuals with no traditional four-year degrees or formal experience, reports The Wall Street Journal.
As healthcare information technology professionals become more confident in their ability to respond to a cyberattack, 24 percent remain steadfast in the decision to not pay a ransom, according to an Infoblox survey.
Hackers stole more than $40 million worth of bitcoin on May 4 from one of the world's largest cryptocurrency exchanges, Binance, according to CNBC.
Touchstone Medical Imaging has agreed to pay $3 million to the Office for Civil Rights at HHS to settle allegations that the medical imaging provider violated HIPAA.
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President Donald Trump called for more cybersecurity training among federal workers in an executive order issued May 2.
More hospital employees are reporting phishing emails that are impersonating C-suite executives and fellow staff. These phishing attempts have become known as "CEO scams," according to CBS affiliate KIDK.
A data breach at a healthcare billing and administrative service provider exposed the personal and medical information of an unknown number of Michigan residents, according to The Detroit News.
Gulfport (Miss.) Anesthesia Services sent letters to 14,000 patients alerting them that their files had gone missing from the practice's storage facility, according to local news station WLOX.
The Department of Homeland Security and Philips issued an alert April 30 that the information technology vendor's EMR system Tasy has a cross-site scripting vulnerability that could put patient information at risk, according to GovInfoSecurity.com.