Although healthcare organizations in 2017 saw an average of one data breach per day, November's average dipped slightly and noted 28 incidents, according to a Protenus report.
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New York City-based New York University Langone Health is notifying roughly 2,000 patients after a binder containing presurgical insurance authorizations was mistakenly recycled by its cleaning company Oct. 17.
The volatile cryptocurrency bitcoin fell Tuesday after Coinbase, the leading platform for exchanging bitcoin in the U.S., rolled out support for bitcoin cash, the continuation of the bitcoin project, CNBC reports.
Northwestern, N.J.-based Chilton Medical Center, an affiliate of Morristown, N.J-based Atlantic Health System, began notifying a subset of patients that visited its facility between May 2008 and Oct. 15, 2017, their protected health information had been compromised.
Ransomware is an estimated $5 billion crime, notes Cybersecurity Ventures, up from 2016's estimate of $850 million, according to a December 2017 Carbon Black report.
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HHS' Office for Civil Rights rolled out additional tools and initiatives addressing the opioid crisis to fulfill the 21st Century Cures Act.
The American Health Information Management Association, a consortium of health information management professionals and organizations, last week posted a list of recommendations for hospital cybersecurity approaches.
A startup known as Luna DNA has thought up a way to get people to contribute their DNA from at-home testing kits to the research community: bribe them with a new cryptocurrency, CNBC reports.
A Department of Homeland Security pilot project discovered critical flaws in 18 mobile apps used by public safety officials to respond to emergencies, The Hill reports.
The majority (84 percent) of healthcare provider organizations don't have an enterprise leader in cybersecurity, and only 11 percent plan to hire a cybersecurity officer in 2018, according to a recent Black Book survey.