Notification is the voluntary and/or mandatory admission of a company that certain pieces of critical information have been compromised in a breach.
Each month, we review healthcare breaches posted on the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) online breach portal to determine the leading causes and how the incidents could have been prevented. The OCR publicly posts healthcare breaches that affected 500 or more individuals to ensure that all affected...
Richmond University Medical Center, a 440-bed teaching hospital on Staten Island, N.Y, is notifying 674,000 people of a data theft that happened 18 months ago. The breach was part of a ransomware attack that disrupted the organization's IT systems for several weeks in spring 2023. ...
BakerHostetler Report Identifies Healthcare Data Breach and Litigation Trends Posted May 2, 2024 by Steve Alder BakerHostetler has released the 10th edition of its Data Security Incident Response Report, which shares data from the incidents the law firm has helped to manage. The report provides ...
escalating from $10.10m in 2022 to $10.93m in 2023, marking an 8.2% growth.The average cost of a data breach in the healthcare industry has increased by 53.3% in the previous three years, adding more than $3 million to the average cost of $7.13 million in 2020. (Source:IBM Security...
In 2023, the most significant healthcare data breach incident in the United States was the HCA Healthcare breach.
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In 2023, the average cost of a healthcare data breach rose to an all-time high of more than $10 million. It’s clear that data security is paramount when it comes to advancing healthcare outcomes. But a comprehensive strategy isn’t just about data—it encompasses the map mechanism ...
Consolidation in healthcarehas natural data security implications. Most notably, if two merging entities integrate critical systems, a breach on those systems can have a larger footprint than a breach on just one of those entities. What's more, a bigger breach could affect more individuals, resu...
1 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report 2022.How we help healthcare companies with better identity and access managementFor Customers Patient Portal Access: Secure access to personal health records and telemedicine services using MFA and SSO. Appointment Scheduling: Simplify login and identity verificat...