Privacy & Security

This week's top stories include a class action complaint accusing QRS of failing to secure, monitor and maintain protected patient data following a breach, and New York's booster mandate that aims to protect the health of a stretched-thin workforce.

In October, QRS Inc. began notifying individuals of the incident, which affected nearly 320,000 people.

The new Final Version 1.0 provides unified specifications for patient addresses. A new companion guide developed with AHIMA offers healthcare organizations help with implementation.

This week's top stories include a guilty verdict for Elizabeth Holmes on three counts of wire fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, and a data breach at Broward Health that affected the personal information of patients and staff members.

A KPMG security pro offers healthcare CISOs, CIOs and other leaders advice on how to secure devices and keep patients safe.

Broward Health announced that an intruder had accessed its network through the office of a third-party medical provider.

Manoj Srivastava, a cybersecurity expert at Kaseya, offers a view ahead at a variety of security technologies important to 2022.

CompuGroup Medical worked to get internal systems back online after a ransomware attack, while healthcare providers in West Virginia and Texas notified hundreds of thousands of individuals about information breaches.

As of Wednesday, repeated calls to Capital Region Medical Center get a busy signal and its website displays an error message.

The UAE capital’s public hospitals and clinics operator has passed its recent audit by the Department of Health – Abu Dhabi.