MedCity News February 21, 2024
Mari Savickis, Vice President of Public Policy with CHIME, will be moderating a panel discussion as part of the Cybersecurity Pavilion at the ViVE 2024 event in Los Angeles, scheduled for February 25-28. She said her organization anticipates several developments addressing cybersecurity this year.
The uptick in malevolent data breaches at hospitals has been a worrying trend for the U.S. health system. From 2018-2022, there has been a 93% increase in large breaches reported to the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) (369 to 712). The 278% increase in large breaches involving ransomware was especially concerning, according to data from the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights.
In response to the...