By Jordan Rau | Kaiser Health News Amid all the turbulence over the future of the Affordable Care Act, one facet continues unchanged: President Donald Trump’s administration is penalizing more than half the nation’s hospitals for having too…
Data breaches in the U.S. hit a new mid-year record, according to a report by the Identity Theft Resource Center and CyberScout. The 791 breaches so far in 2017 are a 29% jump over the same period in 2016 and puts the…
Space in shopping malls vacated by slumping retail businesses is being filled in a number of ways including large medical providers, according to the Wall Street Journal. The partnerships are largely considered a win-win for healthcare organizations and mall owners….
Four of every ten physicians in America are age 65 or older, and 40% of those doctors are actively involved in patient care, according to the American Medical Association. Concern over those older physicians’ mental states is prompting a growing…
A new cyberattack that spread across Europe and the U.S. last week was a type of ransomware very similar to the recent WannaCry outbreak, experts say. The attack, which security experts dubbed Petya (or Petrwrap), exploits the “EternalBlue” vulnerability developed by the NSA and…
There’s an axiom in the cybersecurity world that there are three types of people: those who have been hacked, those who will be hacked, and those who are being hacked right now and just don’t know it yet. When it comes to…
Sixteen hospitals and clinics were forced to cancel appointments and divert ambulances in England last week as a result of a massive ransomware attack, according to reports. The malware believed to be behind the cyberattack appears to exploit a vulnerability…
The threat of cyber attacks has become an everyday business reality. But when it comes to the assessments of cyber threats, costs and who’s responsible for a breach, C-Suite executives and IT Decision Makers (ITDMs) are not on the same…
By Chad Terhune | Kaiser Health News Nearly half of California hospitals received a grade of C or lower for patient safety on a national report card aimed at prodding medical centers to do more to prevent injuries and deaths….
As cybercriminals continue to change their tactics to gain access to networks, there is growing concern among some security experts that hacking medical devices will be used as a new entry point. In 2015, cybersecurity defense firm TrapX released a report…
