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08.27.21
New CISA guidance provides practical tips for preventing and...
This guidance serves as an important reminder of the steps an organization should take to protect the personal information and other sensitive data that it holds from a ransomware event.
Category Cybersecurity
08.17.21
Even vaccine-booking sites are not immune from cyberattacks
A recent cyberattack targeted and brought down the Covid-19-vaccine-scheduling website in Italy, which potentially exposed sensitive healthcare data and proprietary information about vaccine technology.
Category Cybersecurity
07.23.21
Survey suggests educational institutions are at an elevated...
Apricorn reports the education industry has a significantly increased risk for cybersecurity attacks than other industries, such as manufacturing, healthcare, and financial services.
Category Cybersecurity
07.20.21
More than decade-long snooping of patient records finally...
The Aultman Health Foundation (Aultman), an Ohio-based health system with more than 7,000 employees, announced that the patient records of more than 7,000 patients may have been accessed by an employee without authorization for whom such access was outside their job duties.
Category Privacy
07.16.21
HHS OIG review calls out CMS’s lack of cybersecurity oversight
The Office of the Inspector General (OIG) in the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently conducted a review of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS’s) survey standards for hospital cybersecurity and determined that CMS lacks consistent oversight of networked-devices cybersecurity in hospitals.
Category Cybersecurity
07.14.21
The WHO’s principled Ethics and Governance of Artificial...
The World Health Organization recently published its guidance on Ethics & Governance of Artificial Intelligence for Health
Category Artificial Intelligence
06.29.21
Delay in providing access to medical records leads to financial...
OCR, in its nineteenth Right of Access Initiative settlement, again emphasizes that health care providers of any size must ensure timely patient access to medical records.
Category Privacy
06.29.21
Four states consider legislation banning ransomware payments
New York, Texas, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania consider bills to reduce financial incentive in ransomware attacks.
Category Privacy
