Ovia Health, a developer of fertility, pregnancy and parenting-tracking apps, shares user data with employers and insurers as a way to monitor employees' health, The Washington Post reports.
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.
Columbia, S.C.-based Palmetto Health, now know as Prisma Health, was targeted in a phishing attack that may have put the information of 23,000 patients at risk, according to the HIPAA Journal.
Houston-based University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center filed an appeal April 9, claiming the $4.3 million HIPAA fine that HHS imposed on the hospital was unlawful, according to GovInfoSecurity.com.
Hospitals and health systems within the U.S. account for around one-fourth of all U.S. cyberattacks, making healthcare the No. 1 industry targeted by data breaches, according to a survey from law firm BakerHostetler and cited by Corporate Counsel.
Most organizations (77 percent) do not have a cybersecurity incident response plan applied across their enterprise, according to a recent survey sponsored by IBM.
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Amazon has thousands of employees around the globe who are tasked with listening to and transcribing Alexa conversations to help enhance the virtual assistant's understanding of human speech, Bloomberg reports.
Kentucky's attorney general issued an alert in light of recent reports of medical billing scams targeting Louisville residents.
A new wire fraud scam is targeting employees at KVC Health Systems, a midsize nonprofit agency for child welfare based in Olathe, Kan., according to CNBC.
The evolution of technology and job automation has left 27 percent of U.S. workers feeling threatened regarding job security, according to a CNBC/SurveyMonkey poll.
Firefox is developing an anti-tracking feature that blocks sites from being able to track an individual based on their system configuration, The Verge reports.