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.
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.
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.
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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.
The email account of a Billings (Mont.) Clinic employee was hacked while they were on an overseas medical mission in May, potentially compromising 8,400 patients' information.
The physician group at Lubbock, Texas-based University Medical Center Health System, UMC Physicians, began notifying more than 18,000 patients of a recent data breach that may have compromised their protected health information.
The cybersecurity sector saw growth in venture capital funding during the second quarter of 2018 after three consecutive quarter of declining investment, according to a joint report by PwC and CB Insights.
Thousands of HIV or AIDS patients — living or dead — may have had their health information dating as far back as 1983 compromised for about nine months when a database was left accessible to staff at the Nashville Metro…