Healthcare organizations are under increasing pressure from cyberattacks, with 84% of healthcare IT and security professionals reporting at least one incident in the past year, according to a Jan. 21 survey by cybersecurity firm Netwrix.
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The cost of the Change Healthcare cyberattack continues to mount for parent company UnitedHealth Group.
A former emergency room resident physician has been sentenced to one month in prison for unlawfully accessing protected health information and sharing an explicit photo of a patient, KCRG reported Jan. 16.
Hollywood, Fla.-based Memorial Healthcare System will pay $60,000 to resolve allegations of violating the HIPAA Privacy Rule by failing to provide a patient with timely access to their medical records.
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Change Healthcare, a subsidiary of UnitedHealth Group, said it has "substantially" completed identifying and notifying individuals affected by the Feb. 21 ransomware attack.
Indianapolis-based Eskenazi Health has agreed to a $2.5 million settlement over a 2021 data breach.
A limited number of employee emails at LifeBridge Health were breached by an unauthorized third party.
A former employee of Akron, Ohio-based Summa Health inappropriately accessed patient records for a year.
Health system ransomware attacks nearly doubled in 2024, affecting more than 1,000 U.S. hospitals, cybersecurity firm Emsisoft reported.