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AHA comments on the Proposed Rule Related to Enforcement of the No Surprises Act (NSA).
The Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (part of the Department of Homeland Security) along with the National Security Agency and Federal Bureau of Investigation released a joint alert on BlackMatter ransomware. The alert acknowledged the BlackMatter group is likely a rebranding of…
On October 18, 2021, a joint advisory was distributed via the efforts of Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the National Security Agency (NSA) to provide information on BlackMatter ransomware.
This week, Hacking Healthcare begins by examining the outcome of the recent international summit on ransomware hosted by the White House.
The AHA urges the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to revise and reissue recent proposed regulations streamlining prior authorization requirements within certain coverage programs; consider additional regulations to limit care delays; and conduct oversight and enforcement for plans who…
The departments of Health and Human Services (HHS), Labor, and Treasury, along with the Office of Personnel Management, Sept. 30 released “Part 2” of regulations implementing the No Surprises Act.
As of early October 2021, the health system reached a 99% vaccination rate among staff and more than 600,000 people were vaccinated throughout the region.
BrakTooth - The BrakTooth vulnerabilities were first made public on August 31, 2021, after being discovered by the ASSET Research Group. This new family of security vulnerabilities, found in commercial Bluetooth Classic stacks for various System-on-Chips (SoC),uses the Bluetooth Classic (BR/EDR…
New COVID-19 vaccine strategies to reach people still not vaccinated are under development.