Cybersecurity news for hospitals and health systems

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.

Nearly one in five healthcare employees would be willing to sell confidential data to unauthorized parties for as little as $500, according to a survey from Accenture.

Officials from QuadMed, a occupational health and primary care services provider that operates within its clients' workplaces, confirmed three separate incidents that  may have compromised clients' employees' protected health information, according to three notices posted on QuadMed's website.

Tufts Health Plan in Watertown, Mass., is alerting 70,000 members to an inadvertent disclosure of their health plan information after it was exposed in the window of envelopes mailed out by one of its vendors, the insurer told Becker's Hospital…

The total number of healthcare records breached in 2017 is at a new, four-year low clocking 4.7 million individuals affected, according to a report from Bitglass, a cloud security provider.

Healthcare leaders may not be properly prepared to face a cyberattack. In fact, 51 percent said their organization does not have written operating procedures about how to respond to a cyberattack, according to a recent KPMG poll.

Memorial Hospital at Gulfport (Miss.) notified 1,500 patients after learning some of their protected health information was inadvertently sent, via email, to an outside email address, a hospital spokesperson confirmed to Becker's Hospital Review.