Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), Homeland Security Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)

Healthcare Organizations are Facing Increased Scrutiny – Here's What You Need to Know

NAVEX on 4/4/2024

2024 is shaping up to be a very active year for regulatory and enforcement developments in the healthcare industry – developments that concern not just hospitals and nursing facilities, but many non-healthcare companies as...more

HHS Releases Cybersecurity Performance Goals for Healthcare Organizations

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC on 1/30/2024

In response to the number of successful, large-scale ransomware attacks affecting healthcare organizations nearly tripling since 2018, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has released guidance outlining its...more

HHS Reveals Strategy for Addressing Healthcare Sector Cybersecurity

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP on 12/18/2023

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services ("HHS") issued a concept paper describing its overarching strategy to address healthcare cybersecurity. The concept paper builds on the Biden-Harris Administration's National...more

Joint Federal Agency Advisory Warns of Imminent Ransomware Threats to the Healthcare and Public Health Sector

Bilzin Sumberg on 10/30/2020

As if the recent uptick in national COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations were not enough to tax an already beleaguered health system, on October 28, 2020, three federal agencies issued a cybersecurity Joint Advisory warning of...more

FBI Issues Cybersecurity Warning To US Hospitals And Healthcare Providers

Harris Beach PLLC on 10/30/2020

Today, the FBI, together with the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), put out an alert advising that they have credible information of an imminent...more

Ransomware Targeting Hospitals and Healthcare Providers

Akerman LLP - Health Law Rx on 10/30/2020

While fighting a surge of new coronavirus infections in many parts of the country, healthcare providers must also be prepared to defend against ransomware. On October 28, 2020, the FBI, the U.S. Department of Health and Human...more

Imminent Ransomware Attack Detected

Polsinelli on 10/30/2020

The CISA, FBI and HHS have issued an alert (https://us-cert.cisa.gov/ncas/alerts/aa20-302a) regarding an imminent threat to hospitals and health care providers. Federal agencies have credible information to suggest that a...more

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