Thousands of unique IP addresses are potentially exposing medical devices, electronic medical records systems and other sensitive healthcare information to the internet, said security researcher ...

In healthcare management, compliance with regulations is essential—particularly when it comes to safeguarding patient confidentiality. Healthcare practitioners are entrusted with the task of ...

Those eight requirements included appraising two administrative safeguards under HIPAA’s security rule, which require covered entities to analyze and manage risks to their protected health ...

On November 1, 2024, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”), Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) announced a $90,000 settlement ...

Federal regulators have fined a Los Angeles county mental health clinic $100,000 for failure to provide a patient with timely access to her requested health records during the COVID-19 pandemic. The ...

At least one-third of all Americans had healthcare data stolen this year in the Change Healthcare ransomware cyberattack ...

HHS OCR has fined the Rio Hondo Community Mental Health Center, which is operated by the Los Angeles County Department of ...

This “Cybersecurity for the Clinician” video training series includes eight videos explaining in easy ... guidance in identifying and preventing attacks—which is key to protecting EHRs and vital ...

On October 2, 2024, New York adopted new regulations requiring general hospitals to implement heightened cybersecurity ...

At the federal level, HIPAA Compliance does not specify a uniform data retention period. Instead, healthcare providers are required to keep records “as long as may be necessary to treat the patient ...