New Zealand's "Wellbeing" budget which allots billions for mental health services, child poverty and record investment in measures to tackle family violence, according to a news report.
More than 10 million people were the victims of a single massive data breach, according to an Australian report, Notifiable Data Breaches Quarterly Statistics Report.
Seventy-four percent of unauthorized insider access to patient records was users’ household members and the second most common was accessing high profile (VIP/confidential) patient data, according to a 2019 Measuring Progress: Expanding the Horizon report.
Cyberattacks by nation states and parties affiliated with them represent 23 percent of data breaches, up from 12 percent in 2018 and 19 percent in 2017, according to the Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR).
The increase of healthcare internet-of-things (IoT) devices has exposed a vulnerable attack surface that can be exploited by cybercriminals to steal personally identifiable information (PII) and protected health information (PHI), according to the Vectra 2019 Spotlight Report on Healthcare.
Violence perpetrated against employees by patients, their families, and unauthorized visitors – including estranged members of employees’ own families – tops the list of concerns and threats for healthcare security directors.
About 27.3% of women in the United States experience domestic violence, which can spill over into the workplace, said Jim Sawyer, Director of Security Services at Seattle Children’s Hospital. But there are many actions that a security director can take to support those victims, Sawyer said, which includes proactive security planning.
Hospitals and care providers added 43,000 jobs in July, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), continuing the upward trend spanning the last 12 months in which the healthcare industry added 477,000 jobs to the economy.
