In an age of iPads and iPhones, access to information is easier than ever before. Because of increased access, however, hospitals need to be more careful than ever in securing their data. While every ...

TMH and Cerner are offering complimentary access to identity protection services for two years as a result of a data breach ...

Small and rural hospitals face big challenges on many fronts, and improving their cybersecurity is of particular concern. Already in precarious financial circumstances for many years, these ...

Angela lived with COPD for years. During flare-ups, her small hometown hospital was her lifeline — its staff knew her history, and its electronic medical record system ensured her care team had ...

Health care cybersecurity policy rests on a fundamental misunderstanding of what cybercriminals actually want. For years, regulators and providers have assumed that medical records — diagnoses, lab ...

Human error is one of the top causes of health data breaches. HHS’ Annual Report to Congress on Breaches of Unsecured Protected Health Information for Calendar ...

An Arkansas Heart Hospital patient has filed suit against the Little Rock-based health care provider over a March data-breach involving an unnamed vendor that has the potential to impact every client ...

Hospitals and clinics across Korea continue to suffer ransomware attacks and data leaks as weak cybersecurity systems and insider threats expose sensitive medical information. Hospitals remain highly ...

Oracle Health reportedly suffered a data breach earlier this year in which hospitals’ patient data were stolen from the company’s legacy servers. The incident has not yet been reported by Oracle but ...

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This incident serves as a stark reminder of the ever-present dangers lurking within even the most secure systems, and the profound impact a single rogue actor can have on an organization and its most ...

Yet, sometimes, patients still have cause to worry months after they leave the hospital. They're discovering that data they gave to health systems -- Social Security numbers, birth dates, health ...