SC Media October 27, 2022
Not only will a timely response to security incidents prevent and reduce recovery time from cyberattacks, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act requires covered entities to implement policies to address incidents, according to the cyber bulletin from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights.
To OCR, the rise of hacking incidents across all sectors is cause for concern. About 74% of all healthcare data breaches reported to the agency in 2021 involved hacking or IT incidents, which makes hacking “the greatest threat to the privacy and security of protected health information.”
Consider the latest spate of cyberattacks and related periods of electronic health record downtime in healthcare. The outage at OakBend Medical Center in...
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