ANCHORAGE — The Healthy Futures Challenge to encourage physical activity in youth will start Sept.8 with a record number of schools participating across Alaska. The Challenge invites thousands of ...

Two computers of the Alaska Department of Health and Social Services were hit by malware attacks, which potentially breached the records of some of its patients. A Trojan horse virus was found on the ...

There’s nary a sign on the building about the Alaska Department of Health and Social Services splitting into two agencies on Friday and, for people worrying about the impacts, there seems to be little ...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Civil Rights (OCR) has announced the first HIPAA enforcement action OCR has taken against a State agency, and the resolution agreement and ...

Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s executive order to split the Alaska Department of Health and Social Services officially became law, and the reorganization will go into effect on July 1. Under a plan that has ...

WATERBURY, Conn., March 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Therap Services, LLC is pleased to announce it has received Certification from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) for the Therap Electronic ...

Some systems at the Alaska Department of Health and Social Services (DHSS) are still offline after being hit by a nation-state backed cyberattack in May. As a result of the incident, an unknown number ...

Alaska’s chief information officer said in a sworn affidavit that a report on a cyberattack against the state’s largest department must stay private because it contains sensitive information on a ...

A federal investigation of a breach incident - even a relatively small one - can pave the way to a substantial payment if it uncovers a pattern of non-compliance with HIPAA. See Also: Reduce Cloud ...

Gov. Mike Dunleavy recently announced, at the request of Department of Health and Social Services, that he will use an executive order to split DHSS into multiple departments. Commissioner Adam Crum ...