Anthem will pay HHS $16 million to settle potential HIPAA violations related to cyberattacks that compromised the health information of nearly 79 million people in 2015, HHS said Oct. 15.
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.
Although healthcare organizations tend to identify breaches more quickly than companies in other industries, they take longer to contain the attack, according to a recent survey sponsored by IBM.
Dave Summitt, chief information security officer and director of cybersecurity operations at Tampa, Fla.-based Moffitt Cancer Center, discusses the importance of proper risk assessment and security awareness in hospital cybersecurity.
Aetna agreed to pay a $365,000 penalty after the insurance provider inadvertently breached the privacy rights of hundreds of New Jersey residents, the state's Attorney General Gurbir Grewal said Oct. 11.
Here are 10 feature interviews with hospital and healthcare system chief information security officers and cybersecurity experts.
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Google parent company Alphabet will permanently shut down all consumer functionalities of its Google+ social network after a bug allowed outside developers to access user data, according to The Wall Street Journal.
After returning from an appointment at a Hartford HealthCare outpatient facility in Manchester, Conn., Jennifer Wylie found the hospital had provided her with 10 pages of another patient's medical records along with her own paperwork, according to WFSB report.
Hospital IT executives are split in their confidence when it comes to medical device security, according to a joint report from KLAS Research and the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives published Oct. 5.
Toyota Industries North America is notifying 19,000 current and former employees and health plan participants about a data security incident affecting their personal and protected health information, the company said Sept. 28.
A Kansas City, Mo.-based medical billing firm reported a HIPAA breach affecting patients at a pulmonary and critical care center in Lincoln, Neb., according to the Lincoln Journal Star.