OCR Cybersecurity Newsletter Offers Guidance Against Common Cyberattacks

Each quarter the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights issues a cybersecurity newsletter. The newsletter highlights cybersecurity trends affecting the healthcare industry. As the March 2022 OCR Cybersecurity Newsletter notes, the number of hacking and IT incidents affecting electronic protected health information (ePHI) has shot up, and rather quickly at that. In fact, there has been a 45% increase in the number [...]