Privacy & Security

Knowing what role a cybercriminal plays may help in protecting from ransomware.

The institute examined the continued impact of ransomware attacks on patient care and asked healthcare IT professionals to evaluate their use of benchmarking in making their cybersecurity program decisions.

Harmonizing HIPAA with interoperability, third-party compliance and data usability are among the priorities this year for Rita Bowen, a member of the Sequoia Project board of directors and MRO vice president.

Patient identity is a great weakness in healthcare infrastructure, according the physician informaticist who led the algorithm research, which is aimed at boosting interoperability and patient safety.

Toronto's hospital system announced a widespread network outage that resolved the following day. It's a stark contrast to a ransomware attack on the city's Hospital for Sick Children just a few weeks before.

Wolfgang Mertz, CTO for Unstructured Data Solutions, says Dell Technologies is helping healthcare providers consolidate data – which enables easy access to precision medicine and supports cyber protection strategies.

How healthcare organizations can protect themselves.

The frequency of cyberattacks on hospitals and health systems more than doubled from 2016 to 2021, say researchers, and the incidents have exposed the protected health information of nearly 42 million patients.

A private health services organization said it was the victim of a ransomware attack that may have exposed sensitive health and insurance information to an unauthorized individual.

The social media giant says it will appeal the European Union's decision that Meta Platforms violated GDPR. We asked one privacy lawyer whether the decision might penetrate the company's reliance on contractual necessity in the U.S.