tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2016 Issue 8

PHI: Plan How You'll Handle Ransomware Attacks

Beware: You might have to pay to access your own patient files. Your PHI is being held hostage. What should you do? While this scenario sounds like something straight out of a new computer game, it’s all too real for one medical center. Now’s the time to plan how you would respond to a similar attack. Background: On Feb. 17, Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center announced that it paid 40 Bitcoins (equivalent to $17,000) to hackers that deployed malware into the hospital’s computer systems, locking access and preventing the hospital from sharing electronic communications. Although the...

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