A proposed settlement has been reached in the lawsuit against Magellan Health, filed by the 270,000 patients whose data was compromised during an undetected phishing attack in 2019.
Prosecutors allege a former NSA employee took copies of classified documents and attempted to sell them to an undercover FBI operative posing as representative for a foreign government.
The Healthcare Cybersecurity Act, or H.R. 8806, would improve coordination between HHS and CISA, while helping hospitals and health systems with cybersecurity training.
“Culture is generally shaped by the worst behavior we, as leaders, allow to exist,” says Jordan Silver, senior manager of service delivery at Hawaiian Telcom.
The FDA user-fee legislation passed without medical device cybersecurity requirements. While disappointing, stakeholders note these efforts take time — even if awareness of the risk to healthcare is at an all-time high.
