Cathie Brown, Vice President, Consulting Services, Clearwater, speaks with Ryan Higgins, Partner, McDermott Will & Emery, about what a HIPAA Security Rule Risk Analysis (HSRA) is and what it means to conduct an "OCR-compliant" risk analysis. They discuss how an...
Back to the Basics: HIPAA Compliance for Healthcare Organizations and Business Associates
WHITE PAPER Introduction Since the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) became law in 1996, many healthcare organizations have struggled to fully understand and achieve compliance with HIPAA Privacy and Security mandates. That may never be more...
Anesthesiology Services Firm Faces 5 Class Action Lawsuits
Proposed class action lawsuits are stacking up against a New York anesthesiology administrative services firm for its July hacking incident that affected about 450,000 patients nationwide.
Healthcare’s Pixel problem: Meta-based marketing projects spur privacy questions
Reports that Meta’s Pixel tool was scraping health data from hospital websites has led to patient outcry, multiple massive breach reports from healthcare entities, denial from Facebook, and more than 50 lawsuits over the alleged privacy violations.
Chasing a Cyber Attacker: What Healthcare Organizations Can Learn About Mitigating Risk
This presentation is a recording of a web event given on 11/3/2022 by TECH LOCK's CTO, Steve Akers Overview The goal of increasing cyber resiliency acknowledges that even the best-designed security measures are not infallible; it’s how an organization can detect,...
Healthcare Sector Urged to Address OpenSSL Flaws
Healthcare organizations should be ready to find and patch instances of OpenSSL 3.0, warn cybersecurity experts.
Never pay the ransom — a cybersecurity CEO explains why
Ransomware attacks still plague our healthcare system. Steve Cagle’s cybersecurity company is trying to prevent them.
Cyber experts hope CommonSpirit’s crippling attack will spur hospitals to tighten defenses—and government to play offense
CommonSpirit Health continues to respond to and recover from a cyberattack that began in early October, which the health system is now classifying as a ransomware attack.
Ransomware Attack Has Varying Impacts Across CommonSpirit Facilities
CommonSpirit Health is still recovering from a ransomware attack that impacted multiple facilities across the health system.
What happens behind the scenes during a hospital ransomware attack
One of the nation’s largest health systems, Chicago-based CommonSpirit Health, has been dealing with a ransomware incident that has led to EHR outages and canceled appointments.