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Health Plan Members’ PHI Exposed in Cyberattack on Fieldtex Products
A cyberattack exposed PHI of health plan members, underscoring how breaches can affect patients and payers and trigger costly notifications and regulatory scrutiny. This highlights the need for strong vendor risk management, data minimization, and PHI protections—key to brand trust and bottom line.
$3.5 Million Mindpath Health Data Breach Settlement Gets First Nod
The Mindpath Health breach settlement highlights the steep costs of healthcare data breaches, including mental health data; a reminder for leaders to invest in encryption, access controls, and incident response to protect brand and bottom line.
Getting Ready for HIPAA 2.0: What the New Compliance Updates Mean for Security Teams
This piece outlines HIPAA 2.0 updates and what they mean for security controls, governance, and budgeting. For decision-makers, it’s a call to plan phased updates to policies and tech to stay compliant and protect patient data, which affects marketing, operations, and vendor relationships.
HIPAA and AI: What Healthcare Leaders Must Know Before Deploying Intelligent Tools
As organizations deploy AI tools in healthcare, governance, data minimization, and vendor risk become critical to avoid PHI exposure and regulatory pitfalls when using intelligent tools.
Editorial: Cryptocurrencies’ Central Role in Healthcare Ransomware Attacks
This editorial emphasizes ransomware risks and cryptocurrency dynamics in attacks, highlighting why businesses should harden backups, segmentation, and incident response to protect patient data and brand.