Clearwater Founder & Executive Chairman, Bob Chaput, in AHLA's Health Law Weekly According to the American Hospital Association (AHA), there are 6,093 hospitals in the United States. Of this total number, 1,228 are investor-owned (for-profit) acute care...
How Healthcare Professionals Can Limit Their Liability Following a Cyber Attack
Jon Moore, Clearwater Chief Risk Officer and Senior Vice President of Consulting Services, speaks with Iliana L. Peters, Polsinelli PC Shareholder, about how healthcare professionals can address cyber incidents and reduce their liability. They discuss identifying an...
ViVE 2023: Consider these Booths To Visit
Building upon the successful launch in 2022, ViVE is poised to deliver another unforgettable event experience around healthcare IT innovation and business transformation.
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.
7 Ways to Minimize Privacy Risk Created by Online Tracking Technologies
As healthcare becomes increasingly interconnected through technologies, there is one common tech element many organizations may overlook-and it could introduce additional risks to patient privacy. While it's something you likely use or experience every day. You might...
Clearwater on ISMG: Practice the Art of Diligence
In a recent conversation with ISMG's Tom Field, SVP of Editorial, Clearwater's Chief Risk Officer, and SVP of Consulting and Customer Success, Jon Moore shared some guidance around practicing due diligence while onboarding new partners and during M&A activities....
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.
Recovering from a cyber incident, responding to the OCR, and building a cyber resilient posture for the future
A conversation with OrthoVirginia CIO, Terri Ripley "It was that Swiss cheese effect; the gaps all lined up perfectly," says Terri Ripley, CIO of OrthoVirginia, describing the perfect storm that made it possible for a cyberattacker to break into their network amid the...
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.