Cybersecurity

Health IT professionals cited email as the No. 1 most likely source of a healthcare data breach, according to Mimecast survey.

More than four in five U.S. physicians (83 percent) have experienced some form of cyberattack in their clinical practices, according to a report released Dec. 12.

University of North Carolina Dermatology, a UNC Health Care faculty physicians practice, began notifying 24,000 patients of a break-in at the UNC Dermatology and Skin Cancer Center that may have compromised their protected health information.

Multi-State Billing Services, a company that partners with schools to help them manage Medicaid services, agreed to pay the state of Massachusetts $100,000 to resolve claims it put the identity of nearly 2,618 students at risk when one of its…

Minneapolis-based Allina Health is eyeing possible security procedure improvements after multiple knives were found on a man arrested for trespassing at Abbott Northwestern Hospital, also in Minneapolis.

Hospitals can't provide high-quality care if patient misidentification occurs, as the errors resulting from misidentification can have significant consequences for patient safety and the organizations' financial health.

The names and Social Security numbers of Glens Falls (N.Y.) Hospital employees who had not received flu shots were exposed in an internal email to staff, The Post Star reports. 

A jury is South Dakota awarded Jacqueline Krouse $30,000 after finding her ex-husband, who is a physician, inappropriately accessed her medical records, The Daily Republic reports.

Trend Micro, a Tokyo-based data security and cybersecurity company, released its "Trend Micro Security Predictions for 2018" report Dec. 5.

Though ransomware attacks have been highly publicized, the majority of cyberattacks exploited a combination of native software from a victim's system, memory-only malware and stolen credentials, according to the 2017 "Cyber Intrusion Services Casebook" from CrowdStrike.