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How state AGs are ramping up general HIPAA enforcement
Efforts by the federal Office of Civil Rights to investigate data breaches at healthcare organizations are of great concern to security and compliance officers at healthcare organizations.
Investing Wisely in Cybersecurity
Jon Moore, Chief Risk Officer at Clearwater Compliance LLC, based in Nashville, Tennessee, said the survey essentially reflected what he sees in the industry.
Clearwater Helps UberHealth Build a Strong HIPAA-Compliant Infrastructure
Although the healthcare industry has been notoriously resistant to change, its transformation at the hands of digitization has recently picked up pace.
Ransomware Hits Smaller Hospitals, Clinics Least Prepared for It
Olean Medical Group CEO Christine Strade received a text June 11 telling her the group’s electronic medical record system was down. That’s how she learned her company had been cyber-attacked.
Securing The Remote Patient Monitoring Ecosystem (page 40)
Every CISO knows that April, 2019 was a grim milestone: the worst month for healthcare data breaches
since 2010, when the Office for Civil Rights began reporting healthcare data breaches of 500 individuals
or more publicly. In April, 44 breaches were reported and the medical records of nearly 700,000 people
were compromised.
Small Providers Still Struggling with Cybersecurity, Risk Management
A new report from KLAS and CHIME find that while large organizations are becoming more sophisticated in their ...
Clearwater Supports First-in-the-Nation Healthcare Cybersecurity Leadership Program
Clearwater is proud to announce that Executive Chairman Bob Chaput has been invited to be part of the faculty for a new professional certificate program offered by the University of Texas. Titled Leadership in Healthcare Privacy and Security Risk Management, the first-in-the-nation certificate is designed to help fill the acute need for a trained, non-technical workforce to protect healthcare systems in Texas and our nation from fast-evolving cybersecurity threats.
Medical Device Cybersecurity: The Top Challenges
Identity and access management continues to be a top medical device cybersecurity challenge, says security expert Mark Identity and access management continues to be a top medical device cybersecurity challenge, says Clearwater security expert Mark Sexton. "A number of these devices cannot be integrated into normal technical controls, like Active Directory, that you use on your network to manage user access and monitor that activity," he notes in an interview with Information Security Media Group.
Clearwater Adds Cybersecurity Expert Cathie Brown as Vice President of Professional Services
Clearwater, a top-ranked provider of healthcare cyber risk software and consulting services, today announced the appointment of Cathie Brown as Vice President, Professional Services. Ms. Brown brings more than 30 years of experience in healthcare, health information technology, health information security and consulting.
Servers Cause Most Health Breaches, C-Suite Lacks Funds to Fight Threats
Clearwater finds the majority of health breaches last year were caused in some way by a server, while a CynergisTek report found a lack of resources, tools, and talent make it difficult for the C-suite to keep up with the threat landscape.
ClinOne Works with Uber Health to Improve Patient Access to Trials
ClinOne is now integrated with Uber Health to provide patient transportation services to clinical trial sites.
Uber Health Exec: ‘There’s So Much We Can Do When It Comes to Home Care’
As Medicare Advantage (MA) plans prepare to expand their supplemental benefits in 2020 to cover even more non-medical services, players from a growing number of industries are hopping on board. That includes ride-hailing companies such as Lyft (Nasdaq: LYFT) and Uber (NYSE: UBER), which say seniors are a driving force in their health care businesses. The competitors have been vocal about the need to tackle social determinants of health, with MA plans becoming an increasingly popular vehicle to make it happen.
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