Cybersecurity news for hospitals and health systems

Healthcare breaches made up 37 percent of all ransomware incidents in the third quarter, according to a Beazley report.

Almost all provider organizations have outlined procedures for how to address an EHR outage in the wake of an information security incident, according to the 2018 HealthCare's Most Wired survey, which the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives released Oct.…

The NIST Cybersecurity Framework — a computer security guidance developed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology at the U.S. Department of Commerce — is the most commonly used security framework at hospitals today, according to the 2018 HealthCare's…

A ransomware campaign dubbed SamSam — which targeted major healthcare businesses earlier this year — is continuing to wreak havoc on the industry, according to a report from cybersecurity software firm Symantec.

Eric Hargan, deputy secretary of HHS, unveiled the Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center Oct. 29 as part of October's National Cybersecurity Awareness Month.

Severe weather and cyberattacks are the two most pressing safety concerns among hospital leaders, according to a survey from communications software provider Rave Mobile Safety.

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.

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.