Cybersecurity

The cloud may not be as secure as it was previously touted to be, according to a Palo Alto Networks report reviewed by The Hill.

Baylor Scott & White Medical Center – Frisco (Texas) said one of its vendors suffered a cyberattack in late September which may have compromised 47,000 patients' or guarantors' credit card information.

Dan Costantino, chief information security officer at Philadelphia-based Penn Medicine-University of Pennsylvania Health System, shares his thoughts on cloud-based storage versus in-house systems as well as critical points of cybersecurity health systems should tackle after a cyberattack.

Redwood Eye Center in Vallejo, Calif., notified 16,055 patients after it learned its EMR vendor IT Lighthouse experienced a ransomware attack in September.

Google launched beta availability of its cloud security command center for Google Cloud Platform customers Dec. 5.

The American Medical Informatics Association and the American Health Information Management Association issued joint recommendations to modernize HIPAA during a Dec. 5 briefing on Capitol Hill.

Attorneys general from 12 states have united to sue an Indiana medical company over a 2015 data breach, according to Inside INdiana Business.

Cancer Treatment Centers of America at Western Regional Medical Center in Bullhead City, Ariz., is warning 41,948 individuals about a potential compromise of their protected health information after a hacker briefly gained access to an employee's email account earlier this…

Shortly after moving in to a retired physicians' rental home in Brentwood, Tenn., Kirsten and Don Borgeson stumbled upon thousands of unsecured medical records in the garage, according to a News 4 report.

San Mateo (Calif.) Medical Center is alerting patients seen at its Daly City (Calif.) Clinic to a potential breach of their protected health information.