Cybersecurity

The American Hospital Association penned a letter to the House May 31 detailing how the FDA can help keep medical devices, including legacy devices, secure.

NHS Digital, the information and technology arm of the U.K. National Health Service, said July 2 a "coding error" made by clinical systems supplier The Phoenix Partnership breached the medical information of an estimated 150,000 patients in the U.K., GovInfoSecurity…

Staff members at Kansas City, Mo.-based Children's Mercy Hospital fell victim to an email phishing scam, potentially compromising the personal health information of 63,049 patients and family members, according to The Kansas City Star.

NHS Digital, the information and technology arm of the U.K. National Health Service, entered into a three-year partnership with IBM to improve its cybersecurity services, Computer Weekly reports.

Humana is notifying an undisclosed number of members across several states to a potential compromise of their health information after it discovered a "sophisticated cyber spoofing attack" on two of its websites June 3.

As the federal government beefs up its efforts to root out fraud in the health sector, healthcare professionals need to understand HIPAA's role as a source of criminal liability, according to a STAT column by healthcare privacy lawyers Anne Murphy,…

The HHS Office for Civil Rights has reported three HIPAA fines this year, resolving allegations against a hospital, healthcare company and medical records storage vendor.

Amazon recently purchased online pharmacy startup PillPack, giving the e-commerce giant access to information about people's health conditions and sparking privacy concerns, The Wall Street Journal reports.

UC San Diego Health has notified 619 patients that their protected health information may have been compromised as part of the massive Nuance Communications data breach.

Internet crimes targeting the healthcare sector cost victims $925,849 in 2017, according to the FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center's annual report.