Privacy & Security

The former employee's access to patient data and health information was outside the scope of their job functions and was without a reasonable basis, the health plan says.

The agency's first coordinated action against individuals using business email compromise and money laundering schemes to target healthcare payers uncovered $11.1 million diverted from Medicare, Medicaid programs, private health insurers and others.

Steven Ramirez previews his HIMSS Healthcare Cybersecurity Forum session, explaining how provider organizations can best avoid security problems that stem from associates outside their four walls.

How Cyber Threat Intelligence can protect your network.

Ahead of the HIMSS Healthcare Cybersecurity Forum, Steve Winterfeld, advisory CISO at Akamai, shares insights on what healthcare leaders, critical peers and stakeholders want to know about cybersecurity.

What you can do to help your organization.

Assessing how to counter growing threats and attacks.

Oscar Miranda, chief technology officer for healthcare at Armis, notes that regulations are defined baselines yet security goals often exceed them, and the disconnect is a common theme in healthcare.

With security concerns, including a potential breach and a class-action suit, around Meta Pixel and other web tracking tools, health systems should be considering "all the ways PHI may be used, disclosed and accessed," says a former OCR investigator.

The in-person Boston event will gather health system CISOs, security directors, and other IT and infosec leaders to share strategies for risk mitigation in an ever more complex threat landscape.