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Protected Health Information Risk Management Cyber Attacks

Axinn, Veltrop & Harkrider LLP

Axinn Associates at the Spring Meeting: Considerations on Data Privacy and AI Usage for Healthcare Companies

The February 2024 ransomware attack on Change Healthcare was the largest healthcare data breach in U.S. history. The attack disrupted operations—impacting patient care and provider finances—and potentially exposed the...more

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Healthcare Cyberattacks Are on the Rise: Steps to Safeguard Your Organization

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Cyberattacks remain one of the most serious threats facing the healthcare industry. Healthcare providers and their vendors handle sensitive and valuable health data, making them prime targets for cybercriminals....more

McCarter & English, LLP

Season of Enforcement: OCR Announces Its Sixth Enforcement Action of 2025

With 2025 barely three weeks old, the US Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has already announced six enforcement actions for the new year. Particularly significant is the advancement of...more

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OCR Proposed Tighter Security Rules for HIPAA Regulated Entities, including Business Associates and Group Health Plans

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As the healthcare sector continues to be a top target for cyber criminals, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) issued proposed updates to the HIPAA Security Rule (scheduled to be published in the Federal Register January 6). It...more

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A Flurry of Healthcare Sector Cybersecurity Regulatory Developments in 2024

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2024 was a record year for cyberattacks in the healthcare sector. According to the Breach Portal maintained by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) Office of Civil Rights (“OCR”), to date this year, there...more

Fenwick & West LLP

Cyber Resilience After the Change Healthcare Breach

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More than two months after the February 2024 Change Healthcare cyber-ransom attack, the healthcare industry continues to grapple with the fallout, creating significant challenges, disruptions, and outages to the healthcare...more

Clark Hill PLC

[Webinar] Navigating Risk After the Change Healthcare Cyberattack: Strategies for Effective Healthcare Third Party Risk Management...

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In an increasingly interconnected healthcare landscape, third party relationships play a critical role in operations, but they also introduce significant risk. To address this challenge, our webinar delves into the...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Privacy Briefs: March 2024

Research from Guidepoint Security found that 2023 saw an 80% increase in ransomware activity year-over-year, driven in part by multiple mass exploitation campaigns impacting hundreds of organizations. In total, the report...more

Dickinson Wright

How Did They Get My Protected Health Information?

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It is no secret that protected health information (or “PHI”) is more and more at risk for cybersecurity attacks. In 2022 (the most recent year this statistic is available), the Department for Health and Human Services Office...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

[Virtual Event] Richmond Regional Healthcare Compliance Conference - December 9th, 8:25 am - 4:30 pm EST

General and specialty compliance training from the comfort of your home or office! HCCA’s Regional Healthcare Compliance Conferences provide practitioners with virtual compliance training that includes updates on the...more

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[Webcast Transcript] Data Mining in Incident Response: Managing Risk and Spend through an Effective Evidence-Based Approach

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Editor’s Note: On August 31, 2022, HaystackID shared an educational webcast on the topic of data mining in data breach incident response. As data mining has increasingly become one of the largest expenses during a cyber...more

K&L Gates LLP

Health Care Triage: Cybersecurity Risk in the Health Care Industry

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As health care providers are increasingly relying on complex and integrated electronic medical record systems, the health care industry has rapidly become one of the most frequent and often vulnerable targets for...more

Akerman LLP - Health Law Rx

Providers: Cyberattacks Are Still Coming–Are You Prepared?

Cyberattacks against healthcare providers accounted for 79% of all reported data breaches in 2020. (See here). The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and...more

Carlton Fields

Six Steps to Protect Against Increased Telehealth Cybersecurity Dangers

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Last week, the American Medical Association (AMA) and the American Hospital Association (AHA), recognizing the increased cybersecurity threats facing health care providers, issued joint guidance for physicians working from...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Powering Data Breach Response with AI: A Case Study

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The specter of a data breach is an unfortunate reality for anyone that uses a computer. Corporations are obviously large targets, with potentially thousands of employees doing things on computers. Some of those things are...more

Robinson & Cole LLP

Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - October 2019 #4

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Although Amazon and Google respond to reports of vulnerabilities in popular home smart assistants Alexa and Google Home, hackers continually work hard to exploit any vulnerabilities in order to listen to users’ every word to...more

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2018 Was A Record Year in HIPAA Enforcement

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The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services recently announced that 2018 was a significant year in Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) enforcement activity. ...more

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OCR Closes the Book on 2018 With $3 Million HIPAA Settlement

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On February 7, 2019, the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services published the resolution agreement for its final HIPAA settlement of 2018. ...more

Robinson+Cole Health Law Diagnosis

HHS Issues Cybersecurity Practices for Health Care Industry

Just before the new year, the Department of Health and Human Resources (HHS) released voluntary cybersecurity practices for health care organizations, which consists of a main document, two technical volumes, and resources...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Top Cybersecurity Risks for Healthcare Industry

Clearwater Compliance’s newest CyberIntelligence Insight Bulletin concludes that the top three cybersecurity risks for the healthcare industry, which accounts for 36.8% of reported critical risk incidents include...more

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Can The Health Care Industry Protect Itself from Cyberattacks?

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The health care industry is racing to adopt cutting-edge technology to provide patients with the best treatment possible at the lowest possible cost. ...more

Burr & Forman

Physical Security of Electronic Devices

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In the age of electronic medical records and ransomware attacks, recent focus with regard to HIPAA compliance seems to be on electronic security. How are your electronic medical records stored? Do you require two-factor...more

Robinson & Cole LLP

Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - April 2018 #4

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“Orangeworm” Targeting Health Care Industry - In what is being called a systematic targeting of large health care organizations, pharmaceutical companies, and IT companies and equipment manufacturers that service the...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

Springtime for HIPAA

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The virtual world offers opportunities and obligations not found in nature. For a couple of years, my wife has followed the adventures of a bonded eagle couple, Liberty and Freedom, residing in the hills near Hanover,...more

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The Grey’s Anatomy / Allscripts Ransomware Crossover Event: When Scripted TV Becomes Reality, the Script Goes Out the Window

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For those familiar with the Shonda Rhimes juggernaut, Grey’s Anatomy, it is the story of surgical residents, fellows, and attending physicians as they work in the surgical wing of the fictional Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital....more

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