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Cybersecurity
Experts Explain Evolving Ransomware Attacks
CEO SUMMARY: Security industry reports suggest that ransomware attacks will only increase. Cybersecurity experts who have navigated high-profile ransomware incidents offer details on how modern criminal incursions happen in clinical laboratories, including early warning si…
Pathologists Take Images to the Cloud
CEO SUMMARY: Scaled-up operations, streamlined logistics, and potential cybersecurity benefits all present a valid argument for pathology practices to move their data to the cloud. Digital pathology in particular stands to gain from a cloud-based setup that allows remote v…
FDA Has Future Avenues to LDT Oversight
CEO SUMMARY: Even though a federal court vacated the FDA’s final rule for laboratory developed tests, experts warn that the agency may still be able to regulate some LDTs via its authority over diagnostic software. An attorney notes that software’s central role in mode…
Labs Beware: ‘Vishing’ Rises as Major Cybersecurity Threat
CYBERSECURITY SHOULD ALWAYS BE TOP OF MIND FOR CLINICAL LABORATORIES AND PATHLOGY groups, especially since the notorious data breach at Change Healthcare in February 2024. Often, such security breaches begin with phishing campaigns in which employees are enticed to click on malicious li…
HHS Revises HIPAA Privacy, Security Rule
CEO SUMMARY: Officials at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) are proposing significant changes in what observers are calling a major revision to HIPAA’s requirements for protected health information (PHI) and cybersecurity. HHS issued a statement that the objective of the…
Global Computer Outage Shows Risk to Clinical Labs
CEO SUMMARY: Last Friday’s global computer outage was due to a faulty update to a widely used endpoint security software system. The level of disruption worldwide in air travel, commerce, and information processing was unprecedented. This incident highlights that there are risks when a …
New CISA Draft Rule Mandates Rapid Reporting of Cyberattacks
CEO SUMMARY: There is another federal rule that will require compliance by clinical labs. An agency of U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security published a draft rule on April 4 that requires certain organizations—including hospitals, clinical labs, and pathology groups—to report, within 72 ho…
Change Health Cyberattack Breaches PHI Here at TDR!
CEO SUMMARY: It was Feb. 21 when cybercriminals attacked Change Healthcare’s claims processing systems. On April 22, UnitedHealth Group issued a statement that PHI for “a substantial proportion of people in America” was breached. We believe the PHI of our employees and T…
April 8, 2024, Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News
UnitedHealth Group stated that the cyberattack against Change Healthcare, a business unit of UnitedHealth’s Optum division, disrupted processing of approximately $14 billion in claims. The company discovered the cyberattack on Feb. 21 and said it d…
European Lab’s Data Breach Has Lessons for U.S. Clinical Labs
IN WHAT COULD BE A CAUTIONARY TALE FOR CLINICAL LABORATORIES, a cybersecurity researcher has reported the discovery of a medical laboratory database that publicly exposed COVID-19 test records containing people’s personal data, including their names, passport numbers, appointment details, and test …
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Volume XXXIII, No. 11 – September 2026
In the September 2026 briefing, The Dark Report digs into a CMS proposal to cut payments for CPT code 88305, potentially based on flawed thinking. Other coverage includes the evolving role of mass spectrometry in clinical labs, payer obstacles to blood-based biomarker tests for Alzheimer’s disease, and how young pathologists can get business skill help.
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