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Please contact your senators today and urge them to cosponsor the Provider Relief Fund Improvement Act, bipartisan legislation that would allow hospitals and health systems to access quickly the remaining funds from the Provider Relief Fund (PRF) and give them more flexibility in how and when…
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In 2021, cybersecurity authorities in the United States,[1][2][3] Australia,[4] and the United Kingdom[5] observed an increase in sophisticated, high-impact ransomware incidents against critical infrastructure orga
The hospital at home model of care is emerging as an important strategy to improve value during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond.
The AHA and seven other national hospital organizations turge congressional leaders to act quickly to ensure hospitals and health systems have the additional resources they need to continue to care for their communities and patients during the COVID-19 pandemic, including additional relief from…
The American Hospital Association’s 2022-2024 Strategic Plan seeks to position the AHA to lead, represent and serve the field as its national advocate and provide guidance to our members and stakeholders who will tailor their paths to their own communities.
This week, Hacking Healthcare begins by examining how an interesting development in the ongoing Ukraine crisis that involves Belarusian hacktivists could provide a preview of a new cyber threat to the healthcare sector.
LockBit 2.0 operates as an affiliate-based Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) and employs a wide variety of tactics, techniques, and procedures, creating significant challenges for defense and mitigation.
January News Items of Interest to the Health Sector
FBI: Hackers target US defense firms with malicious USB packages The FBI released a flash alert warning US companies that the cybercriminal group FIN7 targeted the US defense industry with infected USB devices to deploy ransomware.
HHS OCIO HC3 TLP White Threat Brief, Lessons Learned from the HSE Attack February 3, 2022.
Health-ISAC is issuing a vulnerability bulletin regarding multiple security vulnerabilities in the Windows/Linux interoperability suite Samba that if exploited, could allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code with the highest privileges on affected installations.