WellCare Health Plans, a contractor that administers Missouri Medicaid plans, accidentally exposed the personal health information of 19,570 children in a mailing error, The Kansas City Star reports.
Cybersecurity
Todd Plesco, chief information security officer at Irvine, Calif.-based PrescribeWellness, discusses the need for ethics in data protection and how hospitals should handle threats to cybersecurity.
Philips released a security alert Aug. 21 about "resource exhaustion" flaws that put some of its central patient monitoring systems at risk for denial-of-service attacks, HealthcareInfoSecurity reports.
Google's parent company Alphabet launched Chronicle, a cybersecurity company, in January. Since then, the company has largely been silent about its work, until CNBC spoke with Chronicle CEO Stephen Gillett.
The Veterans Affairs Department stopped posting online quarterly reports about security breaches affecting veterans for about nine months this year, according to a Nextgov investigation.
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A recent press release by Iron Mountain Inc. discusses their second quarter 2018 results.
Richard Mitchell, CIO at Eagleville Hospital – a behavioral health treatment and educational organization in Pennsylvania, discusses the need to prioritize the various types of hospital data as a cybersecurity initiative.
There have been 229 data breaches affecting 6.1 million individuals submitted to HHS' Office for Civil Rights' breach portal since the start of 2018, according to HealthcareInfoSecurity.
Nearly 70 percent of U.S. healthcare providers haven't purchased cyber insurance, according to a recent survey.
Legacy Health in Portland, Ore., is notifying about 38,000 patients of a May phishing attack that may have compromised personal, medical and billing information.