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A ransomware attack against one of San Diego's main healthcare systems has lasted for 12 days so far, resulting in lab test delays and forcing doctors and nurses to use pen and paper.

The U.S. HHS released a draft of its federal health IT plan for 2020-2025 and health and privacy are top of mind.

Learn what a health information system (HIS) is and how they're key to managing healthcare data, along with HIS benefits, best practices, and more.

58 percent of PHI data loss incidents from 2016 to 2017 involved internal actors according to Verizon's new Protected Health Information Data Breach Report.

According to a study published last week hospital breaches accounted for one third of all data breaches and affected the largest number of victims from 2009 to 2016.

A robust healthcare data protection program goes beyond compliance - here are some tips for protecting healthcare data against today's threats.