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Cyber Resilience After the Change Healthcare Breach

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More than two months after the February 2024 Change Healthcare cyber-ransom attack, the healthcare industry continues to grapple with the fallout, creating significant challenges, disruptions, and outages to the healthcare...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Privacy Briefs: April 2024

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency (CISA) is seeking comment on a proposed rule to implement reporting requirements for critical infrastructure entities, including health care entities, on cyberattacks and ransomware...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Florida Bill Proposes Safe Harbor Against Breach Suits to Businesses Maintaining Recognized Cybersecurity Programs

A recently introduced bill in the Florida Legislature would provide businesses operating in Florida, including health care providers, with a legal defense to data breach lawsuits if they maintain robust cybersecurity measures...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Privacy Briefs: October 2023

Report on Patient Privacy 23, no. 10 (October, 2023) Kaiser Foundation Health Plan Inc. and Kaiser Foundation Hospitals will pay California $49 million to resolve allegations that they unlawfully disposed of hazardous waste,...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

HHS Unveils New Cybersecurity Guide

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) continues to play a central role in helping health care organizations defend against cybersecurity threats, issuing cybersecurity briefs and a new cybersecurity framework...more

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FDA Authorized to Establish New Cybersecurity Standards for Medical Devices: What it Means for Industry

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On December 29, 2022, President Biden signed a new statute that will significantly impact medical device cybersecurity regulation. Section 3305 of the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023 (“Section 3305”) authorizes the...more

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HHS releases health care cybersecurity guide

On March 8, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released a cybersecurity implementation guide to assist public and private health care sectors prevent cybersecurity incidents. The Cybersecurity Framework...more

Epstein Becker & Green

Data Breaches and HIPAA Enforcement Remain Endemic Amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic

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Recently, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the agency enforcing the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Privacy, Security, and Breach...more

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Do Companies Need a Written Security Information Plan?

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As of January 1, 2020, California became the first state to permit residents whose personal information is exposed in a data breach to seek statutory damages between $100-$750 per incident, even in the absence of any actual...more

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OCR Provides Insight into Enforcement Priorities and Breach Trends

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Regulators, industry experts, and researchers provided insight into health privacy and security enforcement trends, emerging threats, and new tools at a recent conference focused on the Health Insurance Portability and...more

Holland & Knight LLP

Impact of the New Health Industry Cybersecurity Practices: 2019 Outlook

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• The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on Dec. 28, 2018, announced the release of the "Health Industry Cybersecurity Practices: Managing Threats and Protecting Patients" that provides a "Call to Action" to make...more

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FDA Issues New Draft Cybersecurity Guidance for Medical Devices

The Food & Drug Administration has recently released for comment a draft expansion of guidance regarding Content of Premarket Submissions for Management of Cybersecurity in Medical Devices. Although the FDA issued existing...more

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Hospitals In The Crosshairs: Managing Cybersecurity Risk (Part 1)

From the recent headline-grabbing attacks on hospitals and municipalities, the specter of cybersecurity threats looms large. As a result, spending on cybersecurity initiatives is expected to reach $96 billion this year....more

King & Spalding

NIST Releases Draft Cybersecurity Practice Guide For Electronic Health Records

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On July 22, the National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (“NCCoE”), a U.S. government organization formed in 2012 within the National Institute of Standards and Technology (“NIST”), released a draft Cybersecurity Practice...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

NIST Issues Draft Guidance for Mobile Health Data

With health care breaches constantly on the rise, increasing access to electronic health records (EHRs) from mobile devices, and more prevalent “shadow” cloud use, health care organizations are getting a bit of help from the...more

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