In response to growing concerns about the security of medical devices, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has established new cybersecurity requirements for manufacturers….
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The Food and Drug Administration has labelled Getinge’s recall of intra-aortic balloon pumps (IABP) a class I event. The Class I recall is awarded to…
Researchers from Johns Hopkins University have created ML algorithms that can recognize the early indications of delirium and predict which patients are at a high…
Northwell Health, the largest healthcare provider in New York State, has released a new chatbot, Northwell Health Pregnancy Chats, in an effort to reduce morbidity…
Medcura Inc, a medical device provider devoted to revolutionarily advancing the management of surgical bleeding, has disclosed that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)…
The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have partnered with the Administration for Strategic Preparedness and…
The Department of Health and Human Service’ Office for Civil Rights has recently announced a further 11 financial penalties to HIPAA-regulated entities who have failed…
A class action lawsuit has been filed against Meta regarding the unlawful collection of sensitive patient information via hospital websites. The lawsuit has come days…
A class action lawsuit has been settled in the Harris County District Court in Texas involving the Methodist Hospitals Inc. The settlement comes as a…
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has issued a report suggesting that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) introduces a mechanism for feedback to…
A draft bipartisan bill has been introduced to replace current data privacy laws in different U.S.states. Introduced to the house of representatives in early June,…
According to a recent analysis of hospital websites, a third of the top 100 hospitals in the US are sharing patient information to Facebook using…
Multiple lawsuits will take place in the U.S. District Court of Western Washington regarding a significant breach of PHI. At least 4 class-action lawsuits have…
Nuri Firat Ince, an associate professor of biomedical engineering at the University of Houston, has been awarded a $3.7 million BRAIN initiative grant from the…
A new report from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has highlighted the use of biometric authentication on mobile devices to enable quick…
St. Vincent Medical Center is once again notifying patients of a data breach after experience a fourth phishing attack since December 2018. On March 26,…
The Southeastern Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence is notifying 25,000 patients that their PHI has been compromised in a ransomware attack. SCADD, based in…
Cybersecurity researchers have identified vulnerabilities in mail clients that could be exploited by hackers in digital signature spoofing attacks. Digital signatures are widely used to…
All HIPAA covered entities (CEs) should be aware that the deadline for reporting data breaches that occurred in 2018 of fewer than 500 records is…
Researchers at Menlo Security have announced the discovery of a new campaign tactic used by hackers to distribute the Emotet Trojan malware. Menlo Security’s researchers…
Microsoft and Adobe have issued patches for 150 vulnerabilities this February 2019 Patch Tuesday. These updates included patches for 43 critical Adobe flaws and 20…
VFEmail has announced that it has suffered a debilitating cyber attack which saw nearly all of their data compromised. VFEmail, an email provider, issued a…
A business associate of Blue Cross Blue Shield has announced that it was the victim of a ransomware attack. The breach was reported by Wolverine…
A phishing attack at Family Physicians Group, Orlando, has resulted in 8,400 patients having their protected health information (PHI) compromised. The breach was identified on…
A new phishing threat has been revealed in which the hacker has created a custom web font on their phishing website which renders the malicious…
A data security incident at Lebanon VA Medical Center has resulted in the protected health information (PHI) up to a thousand patients being accidentally sent…
Microsoft has issued patches for 39 vulnerabilities this December 2018 Patch Tuesday. Of the vulnerabilities, 10 were rated critical, 9 of which were in Microsoft…