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Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Privacy Briefs: August 2024

On July 19, Change Healthcare Ince. filed a breach report with HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) concerning its mammoth ransomware attack and breach. The organization’s breach report to OCR identifies just 500 individuals as...more

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HHS Releases Cybersecurity Performance Goals to Enhance Cybersecurity for Health Care and Public Health Sectors

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The Department of Health and Human Services ("HHS") has released voluntary cybersecurity performance goals for the health care and public health sectors, which outline an increasingly standardized regulatory approach and...more

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CISA Publishes Mitigation Guide to Combat Cyber Threats in the Healthcare and Public Health Sectors

If you need a little intellectual stimulation after hours of Thanksgiving turkey and football, the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has just the thing — the new CISA Mitigation Guide for the...more

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Multiple Federal Agencies Jointly Warn of Increased and Imminent Cybercrime Threat to U.S. Hospitals and Healthcare Providers -...

On October 28, 2020, the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Report on Patient Privacy Volume 20, Number 6. Privacy Briefs: June 2020

Report on Patient Privacy 20, no. 6 (June 2020): A divided Indiana Court of Appeals has reinstated a patient’s claim that a hospital is vicariously liable for the actions of a medical assistant who accessed the patient’s...more

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Coronavirus and Data Protection: Europe’s Data Protection Authorities’ Views

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Data protection authorities from around the world are stepping in to provide their input and guidance on the matter of data processing activities and the fight against the coronavirus.  Hogan Lovells’ global Privacy and...more

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Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - March 2020 #2

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City of Durham, NC Hit With Ryuk Ransomware - Another city—Durham, North Carolina—has become the victim of a ransomware attack stemming from a Russian hacker group following a successful phishing scheme. After falling...more

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Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - February 2020

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Researchers at Sentinel One and Dragos have detected malicious code, called EKANS or Snake, that has been designed specifically to target industrial control systems (ICS), including those of oil refineries, manufacturing...more

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Cyber Criminals Using Coronavirus Concern to Assist with Intrusions

Concern over the spreading coronavirus from China is legitimate and real. The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared the coronavirus a global health emergency, and the United States and other countries are limiting...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Report on Patient Privacy Volume 20, Number 1. Privacy Briefs: January 2020

Report on Patient Privacy 20, no. 1 (January 2020) - ? A cybersecurity breach temporarily halted cancer radiation treatment services at the Cancer Center of Hawaii on Oahu,[1] the center said. The center, which provides...more

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Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - December 2018 #3

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For data security buffs like me, the recent McAfee® Labs Threats Report, December 2018 is, or should be, a top pick on the list. Well, maybe not for the holiday reading list. We need to be careful not to bring up the results...more

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