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AHA urges CMS to remove impending telehealth provider requirement  

AHA Oct. 4 urged the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to permanently remove the requirement that telehealth providers report their home address on enrollment and claims forms, which would pose privacy and safety risk.

AHA blog: 4 Key Ways to Prepare for, Prevent and Respond to High-Impact Cyberattacks

John Riggi, AHA’s national advisor for cybersecurity and risk, reviews key takeaways and insights from a recent AHA webinar on the importance of cyber preparedness.

ARPA-H awards research contracts to advance health data security

The Department of Health and Human Services’ Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) recently awarded $50 million in funding for six research projects to advance technologies that could help secure health care data.

FBI recommends action to protect against multiple ransomware attacks, data destruction

The FBI this week advised organizations to protect against certain emerging ransomware trends, including multiple attacks on the same victim and new data destruction tactics.

AHA responds to requests for stakeholder input on health data privacy, AI   

Congress should urge the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Right to immediately withdraw its new rule regarding so-called “online tracking technologies” and enact full federal preemption to the HIPAA privacy framework, AHA told Senate Health, Education, Labor & Pensions Committee Ranking Member Bill Cassidy, R-La., responding to his recent request for stakeholder input on health data privacy.   

China-linked cyber actors targeting router firmware

Cyber actors linked to the People’s Republic of China are targeting router firmware in government and multinational organizations, which should review all subsidiary connections and consider implementing Zero Trust models to limit a potential compromise, U.S. and Japanese agencies advised Sept. 27. 

FDA updates cybersecurity guidance for medical device makers

The Food and Drug Administration Sept. 26 finalized guidance updating the cybersecurity information device makers should submit to its Center for Devices and Radiological Health or Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research for premarket review of devices that have cybersecurity considerations.

AHA podcast: How Technology Can Prepare the Health Care Workforce and Transform Care

Hear how Northwestern Medicine is using digital technology to better prepare teams to work in the new world of health care, and why a digital mindset is vital to care transformation.

Advisory alerts field to phishing emails containing malicious QR codes

The Health Information Sharing and Analysis Center (H-ISAC) Sept. 19 alerted the health sector to an emerging threat that targets senior executives through phishing emails that contain malicious QR codes, also known as quishing.

HHS alerts health sector to critical cyber vulnerability 

The Department of Health and Human Services Sept. 18 alerted the health care sector to a critical vulnerability in ManageEngine products that allows an attacker to perform remote code execution and which a North Korean state-sponsored actor is reportedly using to target health care entities in Europe and the United States.