Since issuing cybersecurity vulnerability tests within HHS networks, the Office of Inspector General is instating ongoing cybersecurity audits, according to Fedscoop.
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.
Concord, Mass.-based Emerson Hospital sent letters to 6,314 patients alerting them of a May2018 cybersecurity attack that may have affected their information, according to the HIPAA Journal.
Members of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives unveiled legislation March 11 to set baseline cybersecurity standards for connected devices the federal government uses.
Elizabeth City, N.C.-based Pasquotank-Camden Emergency Medical Services posted a notice about a recent cybersecurity incident that may have affected 20,420 people.
As the gatekeeper of Social Security numbers, medical information and health insurance data, hospital are big targets for hackers. But, healthcare providers only spent about 5 percent of their IT budgets on security last year according to a survey by…
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The National Science Foundation issued a three-year, $1 million grant to the University of Massachusetts Lowell for the research and development of cyberinfrastructure that supports translational research, the Lowell Sun reports.
Five additional health systems were notified that hundreds of thousands of patients may have had their information compromised in the ransomware attack on Health Alliance Plan and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, Detroit Free Press reports.
A ransomware attack on a Grand Haven, Mich.-based North Ottawa Community Health System's vendor may have compromised data from an estimated 15,000 patients, the Grand Haven Tribune reports.
Cybersecurity threats to the United States are increasing from countries including Russia, Iran and North Korea, FBI Director Christopher Wray said, according to CNN.
Health Alliance Plan and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan have alerted nearly 270,000 members combined that their personal information may have been compromised after a data breach at the payers' mailing service vendor, according to the Detroit Free Press.