Privacy & Security

A member of the U.S. House of Representatives and a Federal Trade Commission official have called for greater protections against and notifications of ransomware attacks – and bolstered cybersecurity for healthcare overall.

Chino Valley Medical Center and Desert Valley Medical Center are the latest in a string of attacks that has security experts predicting more ransomware in the near-term. 

The Office for Civil Rights has launched a new round of HIPAA audits. Will the program succeed in improving privacy and security practices and protecting patient data? Or could it have the opposite impact?  

Methodist Hospital in Henderson, Kentucky, said that it has regained control of its computer systems and effectively fended off a ransomware attack without paying the cybercriminals.

Ransomware attacks on healthcare and other organizations “will wreak havoc on America’s critical infrastructure community,” according to a new report that also found the malware is now so prevalent it’s creating an economy of its own.

The Office for Civil Rights used the instances to highlight the importance of holding business associates and research centers accountable to privacy and security laws.

A hospital official says no patient data was compromised and the IT staff wiped the infected systems clean. 

The laptop that was reported missing from Premier Healthcare on Jan.

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