The majority of healthcare organizations (75.7 percent) indicated experiencing a "significant security incident" in the past 12 months, according to the 2018 HIMSS Cybersecurity Survey.
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Only about half of the organizations that suffered a ransomware attack in 2017 recovered their data after paying the ransom, according to a CyberEdge Group survey.
In early March, Uber stepped into healthcare with its launch of Uber Health, a service that collaborates with hospitals health systems to help transport patients to their medical appointments on time. But how is it handling HIPAA?
In the ever-volatile world of cryptocurrencies, digital coins like bitcoin or ether gain and lose value in the blink of an eye.
While over 40,000 people are in Las Vegas this week for HIMSS 2018, the most intense "game" with the highest stakes for this crowd isn't in the casino. And the name of that game is cybersecurity.
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Two former employees at Orlando-based Florida Hospital, who were tasked with releasing patients' personal information for medical and business needs, allegedly stole and sold an undisclosed number of patient records between January 2012 and May 2014, reports WFTV.
The Foundation for the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award named Russel Branzell among the winners of its inaugural Baldrige Foundation Leadership Excellence Awards.
Although healthcare organizations have taken a number of steps to address cybersecurity, they may not be moving quickly enough, according to a recent Symantec report.
Over half of all healthcare cybersecurity incidents involve insiders, who aren't always breaching their organizations' data on accident, according to the Verizon 2018 Protected Health Information Data Breach Report.
One hacking incident reported in January accounted for 59 percent of the total number of breached patient records that month, according to a Protenus report.