Medical Practice Closes After Ransomware Attack Wood Ranch Medical is closing their doors permanently after a ransomware attack. The attackers not only encrypted the practice’s data, but also its backups. In April 2019, the Brookside ENT and Hearing Center in Battle Creek also closed after a ransomware attack. Ransomware attacks are just one reason why […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Well that makes me feel a whole lot better. The FDA says that devices that use the decades old IPNet software are vulnerable to hacking, But they are not sure what devices that may include. Possibly insulin pumps. Maybe pacemakers. They also don’t know how many devices are affected. Given that, I am not sure […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]It seems that the US Department of Health and Human Services Office of Civil Rights is increasing enforcement actions against health care providers and their vendors (known as business associates). While one might have suspected that enforcement actions would be down under this administration, in fact, the opposite is true and fines are up. In […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Seema Verma, the administrator of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services at the Department of Health and Human Services wants fax machines out of doctor’s offices by 2020. She wants them out of doctor’s offices because they are not cool. She wants to replace them with super-non-secure apps for your phone that are way […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Allscripts, the $1.5 billion medical technology and services firm, hosts a number of cloud based applications that doctors and hospitals use to run their operations. Hancock Health, that I wrote about on Monday, is one of their clients according to HealthcareITNews. About a week ago Allscripts was hit with a ransomware attack caused by the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]It is hard to believe that, in this day and age, people are still using faxes, but they are surprisingly popular, still, in businesses. And extremely error prone. There is no error checking mechanism in a fax machine. You type in a number, stick the pages in and they are transmitted to the other end. […]
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