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As we wrap up another year and get ready for 2025 to begin, it is once again time for everyone’s favorite annual tradition of Health IT Predictions! Check out the community’s predictions down below and be sure to follow along as we share more 2025 Health IT Predictions !
UnitedHealth Group CEO Andrew Witty testified on May 1 before both the House and Senate about the seismic February 21 cyberattack of UHG subsidiary Change Healthcare, which was infiltrated by the ALPHV ransomware gang. His testimony offered a glimpse into the technical side of the attack and, and UHG's incident response.
While it’s amazing to consider two breaches and ransomware incidents the size of Change Healthcare and Ascension could happen so closely together, it’s very clear that healthcare is a target and we need to massively increase our investment in security to show we’ve learned from these experiences.
Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), National Security Agency (NSA), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Department of Health and HumanServices (HHS), and the Republic of Korea’s Defense Security Agency and National Intelligence Service warning of state-sponsored North Korean (DPRK) ransomware attacks on U.S.
The Department of Health and HumanServices’ Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center (HC3) has issued a warning to the U.S. health sector about potential cyber threats that could spill over from the conflict and affect U.S. healthcare organizations.
According to a 2023 report by the US Cyber Threat Intelligence Integration Center , the number of cyberattacks on the healthcare sector doubled in 2023 from the year prior. In light of that, many have wondered whether the government has a role to play in healthcare cybersecurity. Here are his responses. Recently, the U.S.
The UShealth system is in a desperate cybersecurity state of affairs. UnitedHealth Group’s technology unit, Change Healthcare, is currently facing an ongoing ransomware attack which has reverberated through healthcare systems and affected prescription deliveries. The number of attacks continues to surge.
Mike Hamilton, Founder and CISO of Critical Insight To stop ransomware terrorists from locking up our Nation’s hospitals, the Federal Government is pushing patient-focused entities to align with a standard. Two years ago, the Colonial Pipeline fell victim to a ransomware attack. As a result, they have suffered financially.
The event provides a tremendous opportunity for learning through HIPAA workforce training sessions and keynote speeches from top government officials and leading industry professionals. These groups cover privacy and HIPAA compliance best practices, HIPAA breach trends, and HIPAA enforcement initiatives and breach trends.
As we kick off 2024, we wanted to start the new year with a series of 2024 Health IT predictions. Scott Lundstrom, Senior Healthcare Strategist at OpenText Cybersecurity Accelerated move to zero trust: The healthcare industry is struggling against a dramatic increase in malware and ransomware attacks.
Instead of choreography and songs, we get ransomware and phishing scams, and instead of saving up to try to buy tickets to attend the tour, we need to be spending our time and money to keep the tour away from our organization. Despite our focus on security and privacy, cyber threats are continuously increasing in both number and severity.
Checklist for Individual & Small Group Practices Written by: Nancie Lee Cummins, CFE, CHA, CIFHA, OHCC, CHCM, CHCO, CORCM This article provides an overview of Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH) and basic checklist of policies and procedures for compliance of smaller health care organizations.
According to a press release published by the Department of Health and HumanServices Office for Civil Rights (OCR), ransomware and hacking are healthcare’s primary cyberthreats. Executives at large hospitals, such as Northwell Health, have already commented.
This surge in cyberattacks has prompted the Department of Health and HumanServices (HHS) to publish voluntary cybersecurity performance goals to help healthcare organizations plan and prioritize their cybersecurity implementations. Our zero trust implementation allowed us to meet all of those goals.
Checklist for Individual & Small Group Practices Written by: Nancie Lee Cummins, CFE, CHA, CIFHA, OHCC, CHCM, CHCO, CORCM This article provides an overview of Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH) and basic checklist of policies and procedures for compliance of smaller health care organizations.
It has been more than 5 weeks since Change Healthcare suffered a Blackcat ransomware attack. While it is currently unclear what types of data were stolen in the attack, UnitedHealth Group said personally identifiable health information, eligibility and claims information, and financial information are likely to have been compromised.
But for health IT, things sped up. When new technologies were needed to solve fast-moving healthcare challenges, hospitals and health systems could not afford to wait the time it normally took to stand up IT. This is the ninth installment in Healthcare IT News ' Health IT Lessons Learned in the COVID-19 Era feature story series.
Many businesses and organizations came to an abrupt halt as all systems using CrowdStrike received the infamous blue screen of death. Richard Bird, Chief Security Officer at Traceable AI The CrowdStrike event serves as an incredibly important reminder that the digital world is nothing more than a tool that serves the human world.
Phishing, ransomware, and supply chain attacks have surged in 2021. Some of the major cybersecurity attacks of the past year include: The infamous SolarWinds hack, in which a massive data breach occurred after SolarWinds, a third-party vendor widely used across the federal government, fell victim to a sophisticated hacking campaign. ³
Hospitals, doctors and other care providers need to have as much data and information readily available to use to treat patients and save lives; while at the same time keeping this sensitive information secure. At the same time, human lives are increasingly at risk. This is especially true when it comes to ransomware attacks.
Director of TPRM Strategy Morgan Hague, Manager of IT Risk Management at Meditology Services Leaps in healthcare technology continue to benefit humankind: from the advent of the X-ray in the 19 th century to dialysis, CT, MRI, and other machines in the 20 th century, to a new breadth of digital tools in this era.
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