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Don’t Let the Adversary Operate In Your Blind Spot

Today’s adversaries are successfully taking advantage of a user’s likelihood to open a malicious file, click a malicious link, or steal a user’s identity to launch disruptive and potentially destructive attacks.

Healthcare Cyberattacks at Two Hospitals Prompt Tough Decisions as Their Clinical Laboratories Are Forced to Switch to Paper Documentation

Healthcare cyberattacks continue to be a threat that bring potentially costly business consequences for clinical laboratories. Just in the past month, two hospital systems had their health information technology (HIT) systems disrupted due to security incidents.

Cybercriminals Step Up Attacks on Health Care Payment Processors

The Federal Bureau of Investigation in September warned that it has received multiple reports of cybercriminals increasingly targeting health care payment processors to redirect payments to themselves.

Several Louisiana hospitals face online tracking lawsuits

The lawsuits allege that the two largest hospital networks in Louisiana, LCMC Health and Willis-Knighton Health, used tracking code on their websites and shared protected patient data.

CHS: 1 Million Patients Affected by GoAnywhere MFT Hack

Community Health Systems Reports Data Breach in SEC Filing

Software’s ‘intangible’ nature raises insurance concerns in court ruling

A case quietly settled in the Ohio Supreme Court earlier this month contains language that could signal further trouble amid ongoing shifts in cyber insurance, particularly for healthcare providers relying on alternative insurance policies to protect the enterprise in the event of a network outage.

FBI Seizes Hive Ransomware Group’s Website

On Jan. 26, AG Garland and FBI Director Wray held a news conference regarding the seizure of the Hive ransomware group’s website—vice president of security services at Clearwater comments on the news to Healthcare Innovation

Health Entities Should Vet Risks of ChatGPT Use

Clinicians should think twice about using artificial intelligence tools as productivity boosters, healthcare attorneys warned after a Florida doctor publicized on TikTok how he had used ChatGPT to write a letter to an insurer arguing for patient coverage.

Change, Opportunities, and Threats: Our State of the Industry Survey

The January-February cover story of Healthcare Innovation offers readers a glimpse of the current landscape around value-based contracting, the leveraging of analytics to support population health management, the state of cybersecurity, and much more

5 Executive Healthcare Cybersecurity Predictions to Watch in 2023

Cyberattacks on the healthcare industry will continue to increase: The healthcare industry is most vulnerable to cyberattacks, which makes it a lucrative target for cybercriminals; attacks on the healthcare industry have grown significantly in 2022, and attacks will even go further in 2023.

Ransomware can cost hospitals millions—and then some

The increase in ransomware attacks in healthcare is exacting a hefty price from providers, who face huge potential costs arising from more than just the initial ransom, such as lost patient revenue, the need for remediation, and more.

Understanding information blocking and the expectations for healthcare organizations

In April 2021, the 21st Century Cures Act Final Rule went into effect, prohibiting healthcare entities from information blocking to break down barriers that have historically limited patient access to electronic personal health information (ePHI).

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