ECRI’s annual top 10 health technology hazards list continues the ongoing push to inform healthcare entities of patient safety risks posed by cyberattacks and other cyber-disruptions.

ONC revealed the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement on schedule. While interoperability is an HHS priority, the question remains: how will TEFCA address privacy and patient-matching concerns?

Across all sectors and the federal government, finding and rooting out Log4j vulnerability instances has proved a considerable challenge. But with patient safety at stake, and where legacy devices and applications abound, the healthcare sector is struggling.

The settlement with the 9.2 million individuals whose data was stolen during a longstanding undetected hack on the vendor included denial by liability by Accellion, which maintains that the company held no legal duty of care to individuals, and that customers were responsible for managing their own software instances – despite security flaws in the product.

A ransomware attack struck the Maryland Department of Health on Dec. 4, driving the systems offline in an effort to contain the spread. The outage has spurred manual COVID-19 reporting.

BioPlus notified 350,000 patients that their data was accessed during a systems hack. A lawsuit provides further details of the incident, while blaming the breach on inadequate security.

This week’s healthcare breach roundup includes multiple breach disclosures that may not comply with the 60-day breach disclosure timeline required by HIPAA.

A joint federal alert urges critical infrastructure entities to be on high alert, as Russian-backed advanced persistent threat actors (APT) continue to target these networks, including those in healthcare.

SC Media spoke to experts that offered some hard truths about the Kronos payroll disruptions that emerged after the company fell victim to a ransomware attack: impacted providers share the blame.

The Mespinoza cybercriminal group has made it a point to aggressively target the healthcare sector amid the COVID-19 pandemic.