May 10, 2023
Via: HitConsultantIn 2020, the Dental Care Alliance (DCA) experienced a significant cyberattack on its systems, which lasted approximately an entire month. This gave the threat actor an extended period to compromise the healthcare organization’s servers and extract the private and confidential […]
March 25, 2022
Via: FierceHealthcareA bipartisan bill introduced Wednesday in the Senate aims to shore up the healthcare industry’s cyber defenses shortly after White House warnings of potential Russian cyberattacks. The so-called Healthcare Cybersecurity Act would direct the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and […]
July 29, 2020
Via: EMR ThoughtsBeing a hospital CIO can be an unenviable – and sometimes nearly thankless – job even at the best of times. Things have arguably gotten even worse for health IT leaders as COVID-19 caseloads mount and the need to slap […]
October 2, 2018
Via: HITECH AnswersCybersecurity is more critical than ever in healthcare. A survey of U.S. physicians by Accenture and the American Medical Association (AMA) found that 83 percent of physician practices have experienced some form of cyberattack, such as phishing and viruses. Seventy-four […]
August 4, 2016
Via: Modern HealthcareBanner Health is contacting 3.7 million individuals whose personal information may have been accessed in a cyberattack that began on systems that process credit card payments for food and beverage purchases at Banner locations. The breach then expanded to include […]