Two hospitals owned by Ohio Valley Health Services & Education Corp. say patients records remained secure after an attempted ransomware attack Nov. 23, The Times Leader reports.
Cybersecurity
Data breaches in healthcare are 50 percent more likely to stem from internal mistakes by employees than from external causes, such as hackers, according to a recent analysis published in JAMA Internal Medicine.
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana warned members of potentially deceptive phone calls claiming to be made by the health insurer, according to myarklamiss.com.
Deven Cook Sr., information systems security officer at Battle Creek (Mich.) VA Medical Center, explains why humans will always be the biggest threat to information security and how his hospital implemented a proactive cybersecurity training approach for staff.
New York Oncology Hematology in Albany mailed letters to all of its patients and employees notifying them that some of their protected health information may have been accessed as the result of an email phishing attack.
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Vikrant Arora, chief information security officer at Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City, discusses how to promote strong cyber hygiene and what new forms of cybersecurity threats hospitals should look out for.
The University of Alabama at Birmingham announced Nov. 13, its Computer Forensics Research Lab will partner with Facebook to monitor online violations of its community standards for illicit drug sales.
Health First, a nonprofit community health system comprising four hospitals in Brevard County, Fla., is notifying 42,000 patients to a potential compromise of their personal information, Florida Today reports.
Ninety percent of providers have installed an off-site backup system for their data, according to the 2018 HealthCare's Most Wired survey.
Altus Baytown (Texas) Hospital posted a notice to its website alerting patients to a potential compromise of their protected health information stemming from a September ransomware attack.