House of Representatives Reviews the Healthcare Cybersecurity Act
The introduction of the bipartisan Senate bill known as the Healthcare Cybersecurity Act was a response to the Change Healthcare ransomware attack and presently has ...
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The introduction of the bipartisan Senate bill known as the Healthcare Cybersecurity Act was a response to the Change Healthcare ransomware attack and presently has ...
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Two House Democrats wrote to Department of Labor (DOL) Acting Labor Secretary Julie Su requiring replies regarding allegations that California and South Carolina Occupational Safety ...
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American Medical Response (AMR), a private ambulance provider, paid $115,200 to the HHS’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) as a civil monetary penalty to take ...
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The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has reported a restructuring that will enable the department to improve its operations and more efficiently prioritize ...
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Financial technology and business services provider HealthEquity based in Draper, UT encountered a cyberattack that exposed SharePoint data, including protected health information (PHI). HealthEquity offers ...
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Healthcare is under constant cyberattack by malicious actors. Nearly 6,000 healthcare data breaches that have been reported to the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) between ...
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CHIME and some healthcare provider organizations wrote to Melanie Fontes Rainer, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) Director, for clarity and information for physicians and ...
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Cancer treatment center South Texas Oncology and Hematology (STOH) based in San Antonio, TX has informed 176,303 patients about a cyberattack discovered on February 15, ...
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The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) applies to healthcare providers health plans, healthcare clearinghouses, and their business associates. HIPAA has important privacy and ...
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On June 7, 2024, Senators Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) and Maggie Hassan (D-NH) sent a letter to UnitedHealth Group CEO Andrew Witty telling him to issue ...
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) advises LockBit ransomware attack victims to contact the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3). The FBI has secured over 7,000 ...
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Children’s Health Care in Minneapolis, MN, doing business as Children’s Minnesota, found out that patients’ protected health information (PHI) was compromised in an email security ...
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PHI of 858K Individuals Exposed in Superior Air-Ground Ambulance Service Data Breach Superior Air-Ground Ambulance Service provides ambulance and Emergency Medical Services (EMS) in Michigan, ...
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Ascension Cyberattack Investigation Ascension, the biggest nonprofit and Catholic health system in America, stated it is looking into a suspected cyberattack that has interrupted clinical ...
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Berry, Dunn, McNeil & Parker, LLC (BerryDunn), an accounting and consulting company based in Portland, ME filed a data breach report with the Maine Attorney ...
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Moffitt Cancer Center Impacted by the Advarra Data Breach Moffitt Cancer Center reported a data security breach that occurred at Advarra. Advarra is Moffitt Cancer ...
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Companies with Strong Cybersecurity Programs Get Higher Returns for Shareholders Investing in cybersecurity measures aids in preventing data breaches, and evading regulatory penalties. According to ...
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A HIPAA security audit can help covered entities and business associates identify threats to the confidentiality of Protected Health Information and remedy gaps in security ...
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Patient Data Theft from Several Ernest Health Hospitals Ernest Health manages rehabilitation and long-term acute care hospitals located in Arizona, Colorado, California, Indiana, Idaho, Montana, ...
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It is possible to have HIPAA compliant Gmail if you subscribe to a Google Workspace account that supports HIPAA compliance, if the products included in ...
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The HHS’ Office for Civil Rights started the investigation of Change Healthcare three weeks after its cyberattack on February 21, 2024. Usually, OCR’s cyberattack and ...
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The recent cyberattack on Change Healthcare, a subsidiary of UnitedHealth Group, has sent affected the U.S. healthcare system greatly, marking it as one of the ...
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Zelle is not required to be HIPAA compliant due to a clause in the text of HIPAA that exempts payment processors from complying with HIPAA. ...
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Senator Bill Cassidy (R-LA), who is a member of the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, has filed a white paper that ...
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Multiple Class Action Lawsuits Against Change Healthcare Due to Ransomware Attack On February 21, 2024, Change Healthcare encountered a Blackcat ransomware attack and has not ...
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The French Data Protection Agency, CNIL, is investigating two data breaches at healthcare payment processors that have affected around 33 million individuals –almost half the ...
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Microsoft has released patches to fix 73 flaws across its product suite on February 2024 Patch Tuesday, including 2 zero-day bugs that are being actively ...
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According to the HHS Office for Civil Rights, 2023 saw more than 116 million personal patient records compromised across 655 breaches. When personal identifiable information ...
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While there are different schools of thought on password complexity, security experts agree that when it comes to making passwords difficult to guess, the longer ...
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Security breaches in healthcare are on the increase; and, although there has been a decline in the average number of records exposed per security breach, ...
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