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Cybersecurity challenges in the health care industry: Legal, regulatory, and risk considerations

Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP on 7/28/2025

Health care remains one of the most targeted and vulnerable sectors when it comes to cyberattacks. In fact, a recent breach at a major health care analytics firm exposed the data of 5.4 million U.S. patients, making it one of...more

Safeguarding Health Information: Takeaways from HHS and NIST 2024 HIPAA Security Conference

Holland & Knight LLP on 10/31/2024

President Ronald Reagan famously quipped, "I think you all know that I've always felt that the nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the Government, and I'm here to help."1 At an Oct. 23-24, 2024,...more

Report on Patient Privacy Volume 23, Number 1. Outlook 2023: Ransomware Threats Multiply as Rogue Nation-States Sponsor More...

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA) on 1/17/2023

Report on Patient Privacy Volume 23, no 1 (January 2023) Ransomware—including increased attacks from criminal groups affiliated with rogue nation-states such as Russia and North Korea—will continue to dominate the health...more

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

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA) on 9/13/2022

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

The PATCH Act: Protecting Medical Devices from Cyber Attacks

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC on 6/9/2022

In a previous issue of Decoded, we discussed the alarming fact that many medical devices, including those implanted in patients' bodies, are leaving the manufacturers with known cybersecurity flaws. Due to these known flaws,...more

2022 Outlook: More Dangerous Ransomware Coupled With Inadequate Security Practices

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA) on 1/17/2022

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

The Year To Come In U.S. Privacy & Cybersecurity Law (2021)

Husch Blackwell LLP on 1/28/2021

On January 28, 2021, privacy professionals around the world will celebrate Data Privacy Day. This year, we decided to mark the occasion by gathering our team’s thoughts and expectations on what we expect to be the biggest...more

[Webinar] Health Care and the Internet of Things: New Regulatory Developments - July 25th, 2:00pm EDT

Hogan Lovells on 7/11/2019

Please join the Hogan Lovells Communications and FDA practices on Thursday, July 25th for our webinar, Health Care and the Internet of Things: New Regulatory Developments. We will explore new policy initiatives and...more

The FDA and Cybersecurity: How the Agency is Addressing Cybersecurity Risks to Medical Devices

Jones Day on 3/14/2019

The Situation: As medical devices become more connected to each other and to the internet, an increasing number of patients are exposed to cybersecurity risks. The Result: Over the last five years, the Food and Drug...more

2019 Health Care Industry Outlook

Foley & Lardner LLP on 1/30/2019

A new wave of change is poised to disrupt the way health care is delivered in the United States. This time around, the disruption is coming not from lawmakers or the president, who have struggled to repeal or improve upon...more

HHS Issues Voluntary Cybersecurity Guidelines for the Healthcare Industry

White and Williams LLP on 1/16/2019

On December 28, 2018, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released “Health Industry Cybersecurity Practices: Managing Threats and Protecting Patients,” a detailed set of voluntary guidelines illustrating...more

OIG Recommendations to the FDA for Medical Device Cybersecurity: Foretelling Additional Regulation and Requirements for Controls?

White and Williams LLP on 11/21/2018

With more and more medical devices connected to the Internet of Things (IoT), there is increasing concern over the potential vulnerabilities for cyberattacks against such devices. This vulnerability represents not only...more

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