HHS: Make cybersecurity a priority in 2022
Becker'sHealth IT
Naomi Diaz
The director of the Office for Civil Rights at HHS urged HIPAA-covered healthcare entities to patch up vulnerabilities that give hackers easy access to organization’s computer servers.
According to a Feb. 28 HHS blog post, healthcare organizations' cybersecurity issues were more turbulent as hackers took advantage of hospitals and healthcare systems responding to the COVID-19 pandemic.
To combat these attacks, HHS encourages healthcare entities to do the following:
Have an offline, encrypted...