Privacy & Security
Amid pointed recent ransomware warnings from federal agencies, some Massachusetts health systems have ramped up filtering for external emails or temporarily blocked them altogether.
Despite professing high trust that their personal data is secure, too many Americans of all ages are failing to follow basic cyber hygiene practices, says the National Cyber Security Alliance.
The fines are the latest effort on OCR's part to enforce HIPAA regulations around protected health information.
The health system is working with the FBI to investigate the incident, which took down access to the MyChart Patient Portal.
This week's top stories include malicious actors looking to infect health systems on a large scale, and provider groups pushing back against Trump's claims that doctors are inflating COVID-19 numbers.
With the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, they describe some of the techniques that may be used by foreign groups that could be targeting hundreds of health systems with ransomware.
Intelligence sharing and collaborative best practices can help with risk mitigation as pandemic-era cyberattacks increase, says Parham Eftekhari, executive director of the Cybersecurity Collaborative.
St. Lawrence Health System and Sky Lakes Medical Center both report being targeted, but officials from each say patient data doesn't appear to have been compromised.
A new report from Booz Allen Hamilton predicts that the explosion in virtual care offerings will change the way bad actors target health data.
When it comes to keeping data safe, experts say artificial intelligence can be a "double-edged sword."