Health care cybersecurity policy rests on a fundamental misunderstanding of what cybercriminals actually want. For years, regulators and providers have assumed that medical records — diagnoses, lab ...

Funding shortfalls and workforce shortages leave small, rural and resource-constrained healthcare providers especially vulnerable to ransomware attacks that disrupt care delivery. That's a reality ...

Two AHA guides offer strategies for hospitals and health systems in preparing for public health emergencies and disasters and ...

Renown Health's cybersecurity team has become a lot more visible to staff across the Nevada health system in recent years. The reasons for that – a marked uptick in social engineering threats and ...

A wealth of information, including Social Security numbers, birth dates, and health insurance details; a reliance on systems connected to the internet; and weak protections. It's easy to see why ...

Those seemingly harmless medical forms everyone fills out before seeing a doctor can lead to identity theft if they get into the wrong hands. Names, birthdates and — more importantly — Social Security ...

A group of bipartisan senators introduced new healthcare cybersecurity legislation that would change Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) protocols on cybersecurity and offer guidance to the ...

On December 28, 2018, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) published the “Health Industry Cybersecurity Practices (HICP): Managing Threats and Protecting Patients” (“Guidelines”).

Doctor sharing data is exposed to network vulnerabilities created by mergers and acquisitions of medical practices. IT concept for computer and network security, data breach, cyber crime. Healthcare ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Tony Bradley covers the intersection of tech and entertainment. When cybersecurity fails in healthcare, people get hurt. That ...