Almost half of CIOs — 49 percent — indicate improving cybersecurity is a key business issue their respective organizations' boards are looking to address with IT initiatives, according to a joint survey by IT outsourcing service provider Harvey Nash and professional services…
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.
Roughly half of healthcare CIOs — 53 percent — indicated they would be 80 to 90 percent in compliance with the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation by May, according to a joint survey by IT outsourcing service provider Harvey Nash and…
Three years after a former nurse practitioner at the University of Rochester (N.Y.) Medical Center stole patient information and shared it with her new employer, the New York State Education Department Office of the Professions suspended her license, Democrat &…
A third-party claims reviewer for Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois discovered one of its physician peer reviewers was using someone else's identity, according to a sample letter posted on the Office of the Vermont Attorney General's website.
Protenus named Brian Holtmeier its CFO, the healthcare analytics platform confirmed June 6.
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A bipartisan group of U.S. Senators and U.S. Representatives penned a joint letter June 5 to HHS Secretary Alex Azar raising concern about the agency's troubled cybersecurity center.
A data breach at MyHeritage, an online genealogy platform and direct-to-consumer genetic testing service, exposed the email addresses and hashed passwords of 92 million customers in October.
More than half (58 percent) of senior healthcare executives at organizations that recently merged or acquired another organization said they discovered a cybersecurity problem with the newly added company after the deal was completed, according to a survey commissioned by…
In healthcare, using more IT security doesn't equate to fewer data breaches, according to a new study published in MIS Quarterly.
Cigna inadvertently revealed private information, including bank account details and claims information, of some policyholders in Asia, the health insurer told Bloomberg.