Cybersecurity

The Allscripts ransomware attack has forced some physicians to temporarily close up shop, according to News 5 Cleveland.

CMS will share its data analytics tools and best practices for preventing medical claims fraud, waste and abuse with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, the agencies announced Jan. 23.

Lawmakers in North Carolina recently introduced a bill that would require organizations to notify consumers of a data breach in just 15 days after discovery, according to The National Law Review.

Newport Beach, Calif.-based Pedes Orange County, a clinic that shares its facility with another medical group to conduct surgical procedures, notified 917 patients after a physician accessed its EMR database without permission and disclosed the materials to their attorney in…

Six days after ransomware took down Allscripts' cloud-hosted applications, the EHR vendor is still recovering, a company spokeswoman told Becker's Hospital Review.

Nearly 5.6 million patient records were breached during 477 incidents documented in 2017, up from 450 incidents in 2016 that compromised 27 million patient records, according to a Protenus report.

In an uncommon, less-advised move, officials at Hancock Health in Greenfield, Ind., decided to pay hackers' ransom — and made that fact public knowledge.

Healthcare professionals should be particularly concerned following a wave of cyberattacks involving SamSam, a ransomware variant used extensively in attacks on healthcare providers, according to BleepingComputer.

Protenus, a company that specializes in healthcare compliance analytics, received an $11 million investment for its comprehensive health data auditing and privacy monitoring platform.

The Chicago-based EHR vendor Allscripts has been recovering since Thursday from a ransomware attack that took down several applications hosted in data centers in Raleigh and Charlotte, N.C., according to CSO Online.