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Health Care Data Breaches

Quest Diagnostics Confirms 12M Patients Information Exposed in Data Breach

by Jasmine Pennic 06/03/2019 Leave a Comment

Quest Diagnostics Confirms 12M Patients Information Exposed in Data Breach

Quest Diagnostics, one of largest providers of diagnostic testing in the US, today confirmed that nearly 12 million customers may have had information compromised due to a data breach. American Medical Collection Agency (AMCA), a billing collections service provider notified Quest Diagnostics that an unauthorized user had access to AMCA’s system containing personal information AMCA received from various entities, including from Quest. AMCA provides billing collections services to Optum360,  a
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CHIME-KLAS Study: Cybersecurity A Central Concern for Healthcare C-Suite

by Fred Pennic 02/20/2017 Leave a Comment

HIMSS Unveils New Cybersecurity Hub: 5 Things to Know

Cybersecurity has been elevated to a central concern for healthcare providers, with more attention at the board level and the C-suite, according to a new survey by KLAS Research and the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME). For the study, KLAS conducted nearly 200 interviews of chief information security officers, chief information officers, chief technology officers and other security professionals on provider adoption of and experiences regarding specific
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Can Ambient Cognitive Cyber Surveillance Reduce EHR Data Breaches?

by Our Thought Leaders 11/07/2016 Leave a Comment

Editor's Note: Santosh Varughese is the President of Cognetyx, a provider of 'Ambient Cognitive Cyber Surveillance' to protect information assets against cyber security threats, data breaches and privacy violations. Since cybersecurity healthcare threats on hospital EHR systems have become a topic of nightly newscasts, no longer is anyone shocked by their scope and veracity. What is shocking is the financial damage the attacks are predicted to cause as they reverberate throughout the economy.In
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New HHS CyberSecurity Initiative: Too Little, Too Late?    

by Our Thought Leaders 08/02/2016 Leave a Comment

Global Healthcare Cybersecurity Spending Expected to Exceed $65B Over 5 Years_Security Data Breaches_Ransomware

Editor’s Note: D’Arcy Guerin Gue is a co-founder of Phoenix, with over 25 years of experience in executive leadership, strategic planning, IT services, knowledge leadership, and industry  relations —  with a special focus on patient engagement and federal compliance issues. She currently serves as the Director of Industry Relations at Phoenix Health Systems, a division of Medsphere SystemsAfter years of increasingly dangerous data security and privacy breaches across the American healthcare
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Data Breaches: Moving Security Perimeter Back to Server Level

by Our Thought Leaders 04/25/2016 Leave a Comment

Healthcare Cyber Hygiene: 5 Best Practices to Protect Patient Data _Cybercrime in Healthcare_Infographic: History of Security Data Breaches in Healthcare

Editor's Note:  Jon Senger is the CTO of Vertiscale . He writes frequently on the on the topic of HIPAA compliance and the role of MSPs in healthcare security.The leading cause of data breach incidents in healthcare facilities is lost or stolen end-user devices, including laptops and tablets. Such breaches have led to six figure fines for HIPAA violations in some cases, and with the stepped up enforcement coming in 2016 promised by the Department of Health and Human Services, we can expect to
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Survey: 54% of Patients Would Switch Providers After Data Breach

by Fred Pennic 03/13/2015 4 Comments

Survey: 54% of Patients Would Switch Providers After Data Breach

54 percent of patients say they would be “very” or “moderately likely” to change providers after a security data breach impacting their personal health information, according to a recent survey conducted by Software Advice. In light of recent high-profile security breaches at medical organizations such as Anthem, Software Advice surveyed patients on their fears of a breach, and explored how software solutions can minimize data security risks.  Patients Most Likely to Switch Providers if Breach
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