On Oct. 30, in honor of National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) released a video regarding how the HIPAA Security Rule can help protect healthcare entities against cyberattacks. The video, which featured Nicholas Heesters, OCR’s senior advisor for cybersecurity, covers several topics. Below are the highlights:
- Changes in HIPAA breach trends. According to Heesters, in 2009, the most common cause of a large HIPAA breach (impacting 500 or more individuals) was device theft. In 2023, the most common cause of a large HIPAA breach is a remote cyberattack.
