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Patient Data Compromised in 5 Hacking Incidents, Ransomware Attacks, and Break-ins

HIPAA Journal

Salud Family Health Provides Update on September 2022 Ransomware Attack. The breach was reported to the HHS’ Office for Civil Rights using a placeholder of 501 and that figure has yet to be updated on the OCR breach portal; however, the threat actor behind the attack – the Lorenz ransomware group – has dumped a sample of the files online.

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EMPI/MPI: An End-to-End Approach to Patient Data Integrity

HIT Consultant

The FBI’s 2021 Internet Crime Report revealed that the healthcare sector dealt with the most ransomware attacks in 2021 of any critical infrastructure sector, with the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) receiving 148 complaints of healthcare ransomware attacks.

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Progressive Therapeutics allays telehealth security concerns with EHR integration

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

It has nine licensed mental health professionals on staff, all committed to providing thorough delivery of psychiatric care based on the latest research. The practice was an early adopter of telehealth back in 2010, implementing it as a way to care for people unable to attend in-person sessions. THE PROBLEM.

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