Similar to its findings last year, the Office of Inspector General said Tuesday that the U.S. Health and Human Services continued to have difficulty in identifying, detecting, responding to and recovering from threats to…
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HHS OIG rates HHS’s information security program as “not effective” in its annual review, the same rating it gave HHS last year.
OIG made six recommendations to HHS:
Update its inventory of enterprise architecture…
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The HHS Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center (HC3) has issued an urgent warning to the healthcare sector about the Godzilla web shell backdoor, a sophisticated cyberthreat tool believed to be used by Chinese state…
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency and Health and Human Services announced the Third Temporary Extension of COVID-19 Telemedicine Flexibilities for Prescription of Controlled Medications, preventing some patients from losing access to their telehealth-prescribed medications. The agencies…
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Hospital price transparency laws were introduced with the goal of making healthcare costs more predictable, increasing competition, and ideally reducing prices. Three years after the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) implemented these…
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UnitedHealth Group’s HHS OCR breach notice filing indicates that the information of 100 million Americans was exposed in Change Healthcare’s February 2024 ransomware attach.
The company had previously said only that the cyberattack…
The Department of Health and Human Services has filed proposed modifications to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 security rule to strengthen the cybersecurity of electronic protected health information with the…
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The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) has committed $110 million to 23 awardees addressing women’s health, First Lady Jill Biden announced Wednesday at the HLTH 2024 conference in Las Vegas.
The funding is…
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To improve access to preventive and reproductive healthcare, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has proposed a rule to expand coverage for birth control and pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP). The proposed rule…
The Uncomfortable Truth About Healthcare DataBy Mike Green
Mike Green, MBA is chief information security officer of Availity.
Cyberattacks have become an all-too-common occurrence, with no industry immune from their effects. In healthcare, the stakes…
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