Category: cybersecurity

A former emergency room resident physician has been sentenced to one month in prison for unlawfully accessing protected health information and sharing an explicit photo of a patient, KCRG reported Jan. 16. 

Hollywood, Fla.-based Memorial Healthcare System will pay $60,000 to resolve allegations of violating the HIPAA Privacy Rule by failing to provide a patient with timely access to their medical records.

Change Healthcare, a subsidiary of UnitedHealth Group, said it has “substantially” completed identifying and notifying individuals affected by the Feb. 21 ransomware attack.

Indianapolis-based Eskenazi Health has agreed to a $2.5 million settlement over a 2021 data breach.

A limited number of employee emails at LifeBridge Health were breached by an unauthorized third party.

A former employee of Akron, Ohio-based Summa Health inappropriately accessed patient records for a year.

Health system ransomware attacks nearly doubled in 2024, affecting more than 1,000 U.S. hospitals, cybersecurity firm Emsisoft reported.

Sidney (Mont.) Health Center disclosed a privacy incident involving patient information after discovering a physician saved patient data to a personal Google account without authorization.

Cybersecurity is top of mind for hospital and health system IT leaders.

More than 65,000 patients of San Francisco-based Dignity Health may have had their protected health information compromised in a September hack.