Google Cloud and ClearDATA, a healthcare cloud provider, teamed up to bring cybersecurity and compliance tools to IT developers in the healthcare and life sciences industries.
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More than 1,200 patients who visited Dothan, Ala.-based Flowers Hospital may be eligible to receive settlement payments resulting from a four-year-old class-action lawsuit, according to a WTVY report.
A database for SingHealth, Singapore's public health system, has been compromised in what the country's Health Ministry and Ministry of Communications and Information called a "deliberate, targeted and well-planned cyberattack."
LabCorp, one of the largest clinical blood testing labs in the U.S., is about 90 percent recovered from a SamSam ransomware attack that began around midnight July 13, CSO Online reports.
Kingsport, Tenn.-based Ballad Health fired an employee for accessing patients' health information without a medically-necessary reason to do so, according to a WJHL report.
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Change Healthcare launched a new cloud security service July 17 as part of its value-based care analytics suite HealthQx.
LabCorp, a medical diagnostics company in Burlington, N.C., detected "suspicious activities" on its computer network over the July 14 weekend that may have compromised the health records of millions of patients, Fortune reports.
Harrisonville, Mo.-based Cass Regional Medical Center's EHR is back online July 16 after almost a week of downtime stemming from a ransomware attack on its IT infrastructure, the hospital said in a update.
The Pennsylvania Department of Health took its vital records system offline for six days in June after an employee discovered unauthorized cosmetic changes had been made to an internal website, according to Government Technology.
An estimated 790 patients from UMPC Cole in Coudersport, Pa., may have had their protected health information inappropriately accessed by hackers during two separate email phishing attacks that occurred one week apart in June.