Google is reportedly getting into the blockchain game, zeroing in on an application to support its cloud business, sources familiar with the matter told Bloomberg.
Cybersecurity
A surgeon from the U.K. who was remotely advising Syrian physicians performing an operation at a hospital in the war-torn country believes his computer may have been hacked, leading to the hospital being bombed, according to The Telegraph.
The single largest breach in February exposed 135,000 patient records in a ransomware attack on Albany, N.Y.-based St. Peter's Surgery & Endoscopy Center, according to a Protenus report.
Danville, Pa.-based Geisinger inadvertently exposed the email addresses of nearly 2,000 respondents who completed a customer insights panel survey, The Times-Tribune reports.
Leo Scanlon, deputy chief information security officer at HHS, who has been placed on leave for 150 days, refutes recent claims he and his colleague Maggie Amato are under investigation for ethics violations. The allegations revolve around the Healthcare Cybersecurity…
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The HHS Office of Inspector General released an audit earlier this month of HHS' compliance with the Federal Information Security Modernization Act of 2014 for fiscal year 2017.
Clearwater Compliance, a healthcare cyber risk assessment and cyber management platform, is launching a virtual chief information security officer service to address healthcare organizations' evolving cybersecurity needs.
Des Moines, Iowa-based Primary Health Care is notifying an undisclosed number of patients that four of its employees' email and Google Drive accounts had been accessed by an unauthorized individual Feb. 28.
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.
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.