Finger Lakes Health in Geneva, N.Y., lost access to its computer system March 18, and now, an outsider party is demanding payment to decrypt the health system's files, a Finger Lakes Health spokesperson confirmed to Becker's Hospital Review.
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The HHS Office for Civil Rights is investigating Phoenix-based Banner Health for its responses to past security assessment activities stemming from a 2016 cyberattack, according to a statement contained in its fiscal year 2017 financial statement.
With the increasing adoption of health technology — and the expanding cyber threat landscape — ensuring HIPAA compliance is a must, according to TechWorm.
The majority of healthcare security and IT professionals — 69 percent — indicated their organization does not have a cybersecurity incident response plan that is consistently applied across the entire enterprise, according to a survey sponsored by IBM Resilient.
The Healthcare Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center, an initiative HHS first announced in mid-2017, has been stalled since at least November, according to the Politico Morning eHealth newsletter.
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BJC HealthCare in St. Louis notified 33,420 patients a data server configuration error exposed stored scans of certain documents on the internet without the appropriate security controls from May 9, 2017, to Jan. 23, 2018, a hospital spokesperson confirmed to…
Physicians may need more cybersecurity training and education, according to a recent American Medical Association and Accenture survey.
Although healthcare experienced 78 percent fewer cybersecurity incidents in the fourth quarter of 2017, the sector saw a 211 percent jump in disclosed security incidents over the full year, according to a recent McAfee report.
Almost half of healthcare organizations conduct annual security risk assessments to assess their vulnerability to cyberthreats, according to the 2018 HIMSS Cybersecurity Survey.
Sixty-two percent of healthcare executives indicated their organization experienced a cyberattack in the past 12 months, according to a survey by cybersecurity solutions provider Merlin International and the Ponemon Institute.