While the overall rate of medical identity theft is growing in the U.S., the crime is growing at different rates in different states and regions of the country, according to part one of a three-part report published by The World…
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 National Capital Poison Center in Washington, D.C., is notifying an undisclosed number of individuals following a ransomware attack that may have enabled an unauthorized third party to access a database containing information on calls to and from the center…
The Oklahoma Department of Human Services is notifying 47,000 clients of a data breach from 2016 in which an unauthorized source accessed their personal information, according to HHS' Office for Civil Rights Breach Portal.
The city of Portland is mailing letters to more than 200 patients previously enrolled in an HIV-positive health program, apologizing for not disclosing that the city planned to share their personal information with researchers from the University of Southern Maine,…
Health IT professionals cited email as the No. 1 most likely source of a healthcare data breach, according to Mimecast survey.
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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.