Nuclear weapons agency breached amid massive cyber onslaught – POLITICO

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Nuclear weapons agency breached amid massive cyber onslaught  POLITICO U.S. Nuclear Weapons Agency Hacked as Part of Massive Cyber-Attack  TIME Hackers target agency securing nuclear weapons stockpile: reports – Business Insider  Business Insider Energy Department says it was hacked in suspected Russian campaign  NBC News Hack against U.S. called a ‘grave threat’: cybersecurity agency  pennlive.com View Full Coverage on Google ...

HHS to Disallow $200M in California Medicaid Funds Due to Unlawful Abortion Insurance Mandate; Refers Vermont Medical Center to DOJ for Lawsuit Over Conscience Violations

17. December 2020 EHR, EMR, Health, HIPAA 0
Today, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office for Civil Rights (OCR) makes two announcements regarding enforcement of federal conscience laws.  First, HHS will disallow $200 million in federal Medicaid funds going to California in the upcoming quarter due to the state illegally mandating that all health care plans subject to regulation ...

Winners of HHS Design-a-thon to Develop Innovative Digital Health Tools for COVID-19 At-Anywhere Diagnostic Tests Announced

17. December 2020 EHR, EMR, Health, HIPAA 0
Sixteen winning designs (listed below) selected from the HHS COVID-19 At-Anywhere Diagnostics Design-a-thon aim to increase speed, quality, comprehensiveness, and utility of SARS-CoV-2 diagnostic test data. This effort will help maintain visibility and increase reporting accuracy on SARS-CoV-2 infection rates across the country. Another contest objective is to ensure that all SARS-CoV-2 diagnostic tools can ...

HHS Increases and Begins Distributing Over $24 Billion in Phase 3 COVID-19 Provider Relief Funding

17. December 2020 EHR, EMR, Health, HIPAA 0
Today, the Trump Administration, through the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) is announcing it has completed review of Phase 3 applications from the Provider Relief Fund (PRF) program and will distribute $24.5 billion to over 70,000 providers. Up from the $20 billion originally planned, the addition of another $4.5 billion in funding is being ...