HHS Office for Civil Rights Settles HIPAA Security Rule Investigation with USR Holdings, LLC Concerning the Deletion of Electronic Protected Health Information

"Health care entities need to ensure that they are proactively monitoring who is in their information systems, and that they have backup procedures in place to be able to create exact copies of the electronic protected health information they hold, in the event health information is held for ransom or deleted."

"Effective cybersecurity includes being able to restore access to electronic health information following a cybersecurity attack, so there is no interruption in the provision of health care."

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