A new healthcare cybersecurity study this week offered some interesting findings in its assessment benchmarking best practices and key performance indicators, such as use of the NIST Cybersecurity Framework and 405(d) Health Industry Cybersecurity…
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BOSTON – At the HIMSS Healthcare Cybersecurity Forum on Thursday, Erik Decker, chief information security officer at Intermountain Health, led a discussion with cybersecurity leaders from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services…
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The Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General will begin enforcing information blocking penalties today, which include potential compliance violations for “acts and omissions” and penalties up to $1 million.Info blocking,…
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Through a broad agency announcement about the Scaling Health Applications Research for Everyone solicitation, the U.S. Health and Human Services office of the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health is seeking to adapt Department…
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Vanderbilt University Medical Center is being investigated for sharing non-anonymized medical records without consent. This has triggered a clash between Tennessee law and HIPAA, resulting in a federal inquiry and a patient lawsuit. The…
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Vanderbilt University Medical Center faces a federal investigation by the U.S. Health and Human Services Office of Civil Rights, and a legal battle with transgender patients that say unauthorized disclosure of their personal health…
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By Anuja Vaidya
August 16, 2023 – While telehealth services related to end-stage renal disease (ESRD) skyrocketed during the pandemic, providers documented few details of the services with most leaving out the type of telecommunications system…
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Mike Hamilton, Founder and CISO of Critical Insight
To stop ransomware terrorists from locking up our Nation’s hospitals, the Federal Government is pushing patient-focused entities to align with a standard. It means more work for…
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The Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center (HC3), which was created by the Department of Health and Human Services, recently warned healthcare providers about a cybercriminal gang called Rhysida.
The group emerged in May — since…
By Hannah Nelson
August 04, 2023 – The Executive Office of Health and Human Services (EOHHS) of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts has awarded health IT vendor PointClickCare Technologies a contract to implement a behavioral health treatment…
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