News & Analysis as of

Data Protection Ransomware Hospitals

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

Decoded - Technology Law Insights, V 6, Issue 4, April 2025

Welcome to our fourth issue of 2025 of Decoded - our technology law insights e-newsletter. We hope you enjoy this issue and thank you for reading. Sector by Sector: How Data Breaches are Wrecking Bottom Lines - “Data...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Privacy Briefs: July 2024

Pennsylvania-based Geisinger Health System said it experienced a breach impacting more than 1.27 million patients when a former employee of vendor Nuance Communications Inc., a Microsoft Corp. subsidiary, accessed patient...more

Mandelbaum Barrett PC

Paging Cybersecurity: Healthcare Providers Need to Make a “Change” to Protect Themselves, and Their Patients, Against Cyberattacks

Mandelbaum Barrett PC on

In February 2024, the healthcare industry was rattled by a significant cyberattack targeting Change Healthcare (“Change”), a subsidiary of UnitedHealth Group, one of the largest health insurance companies in the world. The...more

Sands Anderson PC

Ransomware Increasingly Targets Medical Providers

Sands Anderson PC on

Ransomware continues to make headlines in the data security world, and with good reason.  A report issued earlier this year by the Director of National Intelligence highlighted the continued surge in ransomware attacks in the...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Privacy Briefs: January 2024

New York has released proposed cybersecurity regulations for hospitals. The regulations, which were published in The State Register on Dec. 6 and will undergo a 60-day public comment period ending on Feb. 5, are designed to...more

Jones Day

HHS Enters Into First-Ever Ransomware Resolution Agreement and Corrective Action Plan

Jones Day on

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services ("HHS") Office of Civil Rights ("OCR") has entered into its first settlement of potential Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act ("HIPAA") violations arising out...more

Bond Schoeneck & King PLLC

Ransomware Attack on Ardent Health Services Causes Disruption at Hospitals

On Nov. 27, 2023, Nashville-based healthcare corporation Ardent Health Services (Ardent) announced that a ransomware attack impacted 30 of its hospitals and forced the shutdown of several emergency rooms in at least three...more

Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick, LLP

Hospital Cyber Resiliency Initiative Landscape Analysis

Health and Human Services (HHS) has released a report that details findings about the state of hospital cyber systems across the United States. In connection with a recent Ponemon Institute report on the cost and impact on...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Report on Patient Privacy Volume 23, Number 2. Privacy Briefs: February 2023

Report on Patient Privacy Volume 23, no 2 (February 2023) DCH Health Systems, based in Tuscaloosa, Ala., said it fired an employee in December after a routine privacy audit revealed evidence that the worker had accessed some...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Report on Patient Privacy Volume 22, Number 9. Privacy Briefs: September 2022

Report on Patient Privacy 22, no. 9 (September, 2022) - More than 92% of patients believe privacy is a right and their health data should not be available for purchase, according to a survey from the American Medical...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Report on Patient Privacy Volume 22, Number 3. Privacy Briefs: March 2022

Report on Patient Privacy 22, no. 3 (March, 2022) - HHS said in early March that it was not aware of any specific threat to U.S. health care organizations stemming from the Russian invasion of Ukraine. “However, in the...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Report on Patient Privacy Volume 22, Number 2. Privacy Briefs: February 2022

Report on Patient Privacy 22, no. 2 (February, 2022) - Tensions between the U.S. and Russia could lead to a heightened risk of Russian state-sponsored cyberattacks on U.S. interests, including health care organizations,...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

2022 Outlook: More Dangerous Ransomware Coupled With Inadequate Security Practices

Report on Patient Privacy 22, no. 1 (January, 2022) - As the COVID-19 pandemic enters its third year, real “security fatigue” with pandemic-related issues will combine with cybercriminals’ increasingly sophisticated...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Report on Patient Privacy Volume 21, Number 9. Privacy Briefs: September 2021

Report on Patient Privacy 21 no. 9 (September, 2021) - DuPage Medical Group in Chicago said that the personal information of more than 600,000 patients may have been compromised in a July cyberattack. The medical group,...more

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP

AGG Talks: Technology - In the Balance: Interoperability and Security

Our podcast series features AGG attorneys and guests discussing challenges they’ve encountered when assisting clients on business and legal issues related to the Technology industry. While all topics will have a legal...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Report on Patient Privacy Volume 21, Number 8. Privacy Briefs: August 2021

Report on Patient Privacy 21, no. 8 (August, 2021) - IBM Security reported that the total cost of a data breach increased by nearly 10% year-over-year in 2021, the largest single-year cost increase in the last seven years....more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Hospital Continues to Divert Patients Over a Week After Ransomware Attack

Eskenazi Health in Indianapolis has been diverting emergency department patients arriving by ambulance to other area hospitals since it shut down its network following a ransomware attack on August 4, 2021....more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Nick Culbertson on Compliance Breaches in Healthcare

Preventing data breaches is a critical task for all businesses these days, but it’s especially so in healthcare. No one wants to see health information disclosed, and the risks of a ransomware attack are enormous, literally...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Report on Patient Privacy Volume 21, Number 6. Privacy Briefs: June 2021

Report on Patient Privacy 21, no. 6 (June 2021) - Scripps Health in San Diego experienced what it called “an information technology security incident” from ransomware that was detected May 1, forcing some of its operations...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Report on Patient Privacy Volume 21, Number 1. Privacy Briefs: January 2021

Report on Patient Privacy 18, no. 1 (January 2021) - The HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) settled its 13th enforcement action in its Right of Access Initiative, first announced in 2019 to support individuals’ rights to...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Report on Patient Privacy Volume 20, Number 12. Privacy Briefs: December 2020

Report on Patient Privacy 20, no. 12 (December 10, 2020) - Suspected North Korean hackers have tried to break into the systems of British drugmaker AstraZeneca in recent weeks as the company races to deploy its COVID-19...more

Fisher Phillips

Cybercriminals Target Healthcare Industry During The Pandemic

Fisher Phillips on

Several federal agencies have teamed up to warn healthcare employers of the increased threat they face as a result of malicious cybercriminals aiming to take advantage of the pandemic to wreak havoc on their operations. The...more

King & Spalding

Hospitals Facing New Ransomware Challenges

King & Spalding on

Ransomware has risen to “worst nightmare” status for many organizations, particularly in the healthcare industry. While it has been lurking for many years, recently ransomware has emerged as one of the most virulent...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

Hospitals Beware: A Cyberattack Alert

Ballard Spahr LLP on

The Cybersecurity Infrastructure Security Agency, Federal Bureau of Investigation, and Department of Health and Human Services have jointly posted an advisory to warn hospitals and other health care providers about the threat...more

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard,...

FBI Warns of Imminent Cybercrime Threat to U.S. Hospitals and Health Care Providers

In a Joint Cybersecurity Advisory issued Wednesday, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Department of Health and Human Services warned of an imminent ransomware...more

30 Results
 / 
View per page
Page: of 2

"My best business intelligence, in one easy email…"

Your first step to building a free, personalized, morning email brief covering pertinent authors and topics on JD Supra:
*By using the service, you signify your acceptance of JD Supra's Privacy Policy.
- hide
- hide