tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2017 Issue 10

Cybersecurity: Secure Your Systems Against Ransomware or Pay the Price

Look at this insight into the WannaCry ransomware attack impacting healthcare worldwide. When a virus knocks out your health IT system, you lose more than just your patients’ ePHI. You lose the ability to serve patients safely, running the risk of more than just the loss of privacy. Background: Over the weekend of May 12, a large-scale ransomware attack fanned out across much of Europe and Asia. The situation escalated quickly, and without access to medical records, patients were turned away from clinician practices, clinics, and hospitals. As the hack unfurled, federal reports indicated that the U.S. had...

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