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…
Cybersecurity news for hospitals and health systems
Healthcare cybersecurity news covering breaches, ransomware and the hospital cyberattacks that shut down clinical operations. Becker's tracks how health systems detect, respond and spend to prevent the next one.
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.
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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.
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…