An enormous ransomware attack has impacted organizations across the globe, including the National Health Service. U.K. hospitals resorted to diverting patients and using pen and paper for documentation.
The 2017 IBM X-Force Threat Intelligence Index says the number of healthcare records decreased significantly in 2016.
At the Abarca Forward conference earlier this year, George Van Antwerp, managing director at Deloitte, discussed how social determinants of health and a personalized member experience can improve medication adherence and health outcomes.
A recent FBI alert notes that cybercriminals have been targeting File Transfer Protocol servers to access patient data.
This incident doesn't seem to have targeted only patient records. Instead, at least one hack hit food and beverage stations at Banner facilities in four states.
If a hacker was able to suspend use of your medical device until you paid up, what options would you really have?
Shire adds to eye treatment portfolio with biotherapeutic deal and FDA issues safety alert for a Hospira infusion pump over concerns that it is vulnerable to a cyberattack.
A specialty drug is a class of prescription medications used to treat complex, chronic or rare medical conditions. Although this classification was originally intended to define the treatment of rare, also termed “orphan” diseases, affecting fewer than 200,000 people in the US, more recently, specialty drugs have emerged as the cornerstone of treatment for chronic and complex diseases such as cancer, autoimmune conditions, diabetes, hepatitis C, and HIV/AIDS.
UCLA Health is the latest healthcare organization to reveal that it has been the target of a malicious cyberattack.
By now, you've probably heard that CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield, serving Maryland and the Washington, D.C., area, has said it was the victim of a malicious cyberattack. The hack, according to the insurer, involved 1.1 million current and former CareFirst members and customers. naturally, security companies came out of the woodwork, offering news outlest such as this one interviews with their executives who want to discuss cyberattack prevention — and, of course, sell more services.
Yet another healthcare entity has been hacked, this time Premera Blue Cross in Washington, which today said it was the target of a “sophisticated cyber attack” that may include medical and financial information on some 11 million customers. The health plan, based just outside of Seattle, said it discovered its IT systems were breached on […]
One of the country’s largest health insurers, Anthem, has been the subject of what could be could be the largest breach of a health care company to date. The cyberattack has compromised the personal information of customers, employees and the chief executive by breaching a database containing as many as 80 million records. The FBI is […]
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