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Hacking Health Care Records Reaches Epidemic Proportions

Nsikan Akpan | Scientific American | March 29, 2016

In February 2015, Anthem made history when 78.8 million of its customers were hacked. It was the largest health care breach ever, and it opened the floodgates on a landmark year. More than 113 million medical records were compromised last year, according to the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) under Health and Human Services. Consider it this way: if each case represented a single individual, one in three Americans would have been a victim...

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NIST to Release New Guidance for Strengthening Hospital Cybersecurity

Bill Siwicki | Healthcare Finance News | April 18, 2016

The National Institute of Standards and Technology is poised to deliver new cybersecurty guidance, according to NIST fellow Ronald Ross. NIST offers a security framework that was developed for the federal government that helps organizations understand, select and implement security controls. Ross likened the NIST framework, developed for the federal government under the Federal Information Security Modernization Act, to a very large catalog of privacy and security controls to safeguard the enterprise form hostile cyberattacks...

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