Richmond-based Virginia Commonwealth University Health System is alerting 4,700 individuals to a potential compromise of their or their child's EHR data.
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Kansas City, Mo.-based Children's Mercy Hospital was served with a class-action lawsuit July 10 after staff members were tricked by an email phishing scam that potentially compromised 63,049 patients' and family members' protected health information, according to The Kansas City…
The healthcare industry cannot rely on HIPAA alone to ensure patient privacy, wrote Lucia C. Savage, chief privacy and regulatory officer at digital health company Omada Health, in an op-ed for Health Affairs July 5.
Meditech opted to shut down Harrisonville, Mo.-based Cass Regional Medical Center's EHR July 9 after hospital officials discovered ransomware on its IT infrastructure around 11 a.m., according to a notice on the hospital's website.
Manitowoc County in Wisconsin recently notified an undisclosed number of residents about a breach the agency discovered in April that may have left their protected health information exposed for up to three months.
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There were 748,883 patients affected in hacking or IT incidents reported to the HHS Office for Civil Rights in May, marking the month as the most dangerous for healthcare hacks so far in 2018.
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.