The attack has given detailed dossiers on millions of lives to criminals, employers, enemies and anyone with the means and motivation to exploit them. This isn't just another data breach, it's a healthcare catastrophe — and it's being inexplicably downplayed.
The current piecemeal state-by-state regulation approach is a feeble patchwork and ready for collapse under the first strong blow. It's high time we craft a robust and uniform effort to safeguard our patients' digital rights.
Balancing healthcare benefits and insurance costs requires research. From becoming a Difference Card member to offering wellness resources, there are many ways to improve healthcare at low cost.
While more generative AI tools are becoming available in healthcare for diagnostics and patient communication, it is important for clinicians and healthcare staff to be aware of the security, privacy, and compliance risks when entering protected health information (PHI) into a tool like ChatGPT.
The impetus for the focus on potential employer liability is a recent decision from the Supreme Court of Virginia.
The latest Breach Barometer from Protenus and DataBreaches.net details that the single largest incident in November was a ransomware attack on the Hackensack Sleep and Pulmonary Center in New Jersey. It impacted 16,747 patient records.
Protenus, the company behind monthly Breach Barometers, is expanding its capabilities and will use its analytics platform to shed light on other problems in the world of healthcare.
A new report from Relatient, A Data-Driven Guide to Patient Access Succes, highlights how focusing on data accuracy and relevance can enhance the performance of healthcare practices.
Google has made a healthcare-related change to its policies. The company has started removing people's private medical records from its Search results.
Data breaches just keep happening. In May's Protenus Breach Barometer, three reported breach incidents went undetected for more than three years.
As Protenus found the number of breached records is on the rise, a JAMA Internal Medicine study claimed the risk of breaches is higher at large facilities and teaching hospitals.
A new report from Protenus found that of the 31 data breach incidents in February, 58 percent were attributable to insiders while only 13 percent were due to hacking.
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Just when you think the cybersecurity problem couldn't get any worse in healthcare, along comes a report saying that there were more health data breaches disclosed in November than in any other month in 2016.
“The healthcare industry is under attack,” said Larry Ponemon, chairman and founder of the Ponemon Institute. “But it really hasn’t moved the needle all that much.”
Healthcare data is more valuable than many other forms of personal identification because information such as birth dates, Social Security and insurance ID numbers don’t change and criminals can charge premium prices on the black market.
Kevin Pollack, Vice President at Stericycle, a firm that helps companies in many industries handle recalls, shared input in a phone interview about what to expect moving forward and how IoT is effecting healthcare in particular.
This infographic illustrates the risks involved, spells out the major areas of concern and shows where medical device companies and providers can step up to prevent more breach scares moving forward.