The Office for Civil Rights at HHS has launched a campaign to educate the public of their civil rights protections when seeking treatment and recovery services for opioid use disorder.
Cybersecurity
In an age of expanding and evolving cyberthreats, hospitals and health systems with traditional data protection and cybersecurity strategies are sitting ducks.
CMS brought an ACA sign-up portal back online Oct. 26 after confirming hackers had accessed the files of about 75,000 consumers earlier this month.
Hackers who targeted an Affordable Care Act sign-up portal accessed the files of about 75,000 consumers, CMS has confirmed.
Mobile, Ala.-based USA Health University Hospital received two bomb threats Oct. 16 and Oct. 17, according to WKRG.
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The FDA released a draft of its updated premarket guidance for medical device cybersecurity Oct. 18, adding new recommendations for internet-connected products.
Fifty-six percent of healthcare organizations have been compromised by an endpoint attack in the last year, slightly less than the 64 percent of organizations across industries that reported so, according to a recent report sponsored by endpoint security company Barkly.
The FDA and the Department of Homeland Security signed a memorandum of agreement as part of a joint effort to address threats to medical device security, particularly among internet-connected products.
Catawba Valley Medical Center in Hickory, N.C., began mailing notification letters to an undisclosed number of patients Oct. 12 after it discovered an unauthorized user had gained access to three of its employees' email accounts.
HITRUST, a security standards development and accreditation organization, launched the RightStart Program on Oct. 9 to help startups adopt privacy and security measures.