How Hospitals Can Harness Identity Access Management to Mitigate Cyberattacks By Ferdinand Hamada
Ferdinand Hamada is managing director of healthcare for MorganFranklin Consulting of McLean, VA.
On Thanksgiving Day, Ardent Health Services was hit by a…
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The following is a guest article by Dotty Bollinger, JD, Healthcare Compliance Consultant, Compliancy Group
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) reached a settlement with Doctors’ Management Services…
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Ardent Health Services works to recover from a November 23 ransomware attack that forced it to take its computer systems offline across its six-state network of 36 facilities.
The health system specifically mentions…
Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. Because there’s…
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Rural Healthcare Organizations Need Security Support
Healthcare access is already a challenge for rural communities across the country. The threat of a cyberattack is yet another immense weight for these independent health systems to juggle.
Many…
Two New York hospitals, Carthage Area Hospital and Claxton-Hepburn Medical Center, are still grappling with disruptions caused by a ransomware attack that occurred on August 31. Despite the passage of weeks, both hospitals are…
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Two New York hospitals are still working to get back to normal operations following a reported ransomware attack that occurred this past month. While hospital operations are still affected, LockBit is threatening to release…
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The following is a guest article by Steven Stone, Head of Rubrik Zero Labs at Rubrik
In early August, a ransomware attack disrupted operations across its network of 17 hospitals and more than 165 clinics…
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Point32Health, the second-largest insurer in Massachusetts, reports a six-month loss of $103 million that its CFO attributes almost entirely to a security breach at Harvard Pilgrim Health Care.
Harvard Pilgrim discovered the ransomware…
New research by the Ponemon Institute and IBM Security revealed that the global average cost of a data breach reached $4.45 million and the costs of avoiding law enforcement after a ransomware attack have…
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