EHRs and Ransomware: Protecting Your Crown Jewel

EHRs and Ransomware: Protecting Your Crown Jewel

Last year, more than a dozen health systems were driven into EHR downtime by ransomware attacks. The EHR is the information system equivalent to the heart of a healthcare provider. All-important patient information flows through these critical information systems. In...
Getting Proactive about the Ransomware Threat

Getting Proactive about the Ransomware Threat

Throughout this past fall, international criminal organizations asserted their dominance over the healthcare sector through ransomware. By the end of November, more than a dozen health systems were driven into EHR downtime by ransomware attacks. The pandemic’s...
Yesterday’s Cyber Risk is not Today’s Cyber Risk

Yesterday’s Cyber Risk is not Today’s Cyber Risk

Over the past 10 years, the healthcare industry’s understanding of cyber risk has evolved through four distinct phases, emphasizing four different aspects of cyber risk. Understanding these four different phases gives context for where healthcare cyber risk...
HIPAA Privacy Rule: Potential Impacts of Proposed Changes

HIPAA Privacy Rule: Potential Impacts of Proposed Changes

By: Wes Morris, Managing Principal Consultant and Dawn Morgenstern, Senior Principal Consultant This past Thursday, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) issued a statement of intent to publish a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) proposing to modify the HIPAA Privacy...