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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.
The Healthcare Cybersecurity Act, or H.R. 8806, would improve coordination between HHS and CISA, while helping hospitals and health systems with cybersecurity training.
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.
A GAO audit of the Medicaid telehealth program found that more oversight is needed of how providers are communicating the privacy and security risks to patients.
This week’s healthcare data breach roundup includes multiple hacking and data theft incidents, led by a hack and subsequent data theft at Physician’s Business Office in West Virginia.
OCR’s former health information privacy deputy director shares how the proposed national data privacy bill could better protect health data generated by consumers and health apps not regulated by HIPAA.
A new HHS alert sheds light on past and current spear-phishing and supply chain attacks against healthcare and pharma sectors by the Chinese state-backed threat group.
The Sequoia Project issued five resources aimed to support providers in complying with the upcoming interoperability rules while sharing the provider burden of overlapping privacy rules.
