A Cleveland-based University Hospitals Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital employee emailed a message to a group of patients, inadvertently allowing the recipients to see each other's email addresses, according to a news release emailed to Becker's Hospital Review.
Cybersecurity
New research prompted the Department of Homeland Security to resend a warning on cybersecurity vulnerabilities in electronic medical devices, according to the Digital Journal.
Israeli cybersecurity experts created malware that can alter CT scans to indicate a healthy patient has cancer and a sick patient is healthy, according to The Washington Post.
Numerous privacy incidents at hospitals, IT suppliers and other healthcare organizations captured public attention last month.
Battle Creek, Mich.-based Brookside ENT and Hearing Center is shutting down after cyber hackers deleted all the practice's patient records, WWMT, a CBS affiliate, reports.
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UCLA Health has agreed to pay $7.5 million to settle a class-action lawsuit brought by patients after a data breach put their personal and health information at risk, according to the HIPAA Journal.
A patient of University of Connecticut Health is suing the health system, claiming it "failed to implement adequate and reasonable cybersecurity procedures and protocols," exposing her bank account to fraudulent activity after the health system was hacked in December, according…
The Hippocratic oath and the principles embodied in “duty of care” guide the daily actions of healthcare providers. But when it comes to information security and protecting sensitive PHI, is the healthcare community living up to those principles?
Global insurance company Marsh & McLennan partnered with various insurance companies to launch a program that evaluates cybersecurity software and technology sold to businesses, The Wall Street Journal reports.
Hackers compromised an automatic software update tool with malware to maliciously gain backdoor access to thousands of Asus customer computers last year, cybersecurity firm Kaspersky Lab told online magazine Motherboard.