CIOX Health is a medical record retrieval company that is suing the Department of Health and Human Services. The lawsuit concerns the restriction placed by HIPAA laws on the amount that providers can charge patients […]
A ransomware attack on Allscripts happened on January 18, 2018, which is the reason why a number of the firm’s applications, such as the cloud EHR and the electronic prescriptions platform, went offline. The attack […]
Aetna agreed to pay $17,161,200 to settle a class action lawsuit filed by complainants of a mailing error that disclosed sensitive information. The envelopes used had clear plastic windows through which the details of HIV […]
Hancock Health in Indiana, Greenfield had a ransomware attack that forced hospital staff to use pen and paper to manually record patient health information. The hospital’s IT department tried to block the ransomware attack and […]
The Coplin Health Systems based in West Virginia had a potential PHI breach impacting 43,000 patients. The cause of the breach is an unencrypted laptop computer stolen from an employee’s vehicle. Coplin Health knew about […]
The Department of Health and Human Services has updated the rule on Confidentiality of Substance Use Disorder Patients Records. In relation to this, the regulation on Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) also […]
The computer network of Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences (OSUCHS) was accessed by an unauthorized individual resulting in the potential exposure of the billing information of Medicaid patients. OSUCHS discovered the security breach […]
Longs Peak Family Practice (LPFP) in Longmont, Colorado was attacked by ransomware. The hacker gained access to the systems of this family and sports medicine practice and encrypted some parts of its network. LPFP identified […]
The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General (OIG) found data security inadequacies upon auditing the North Carolina State Medicaid agency. According to the report, the State agency did not implement enough […]
NewSky Security researchers discovered a misconfiguration in over a thousand Lexmark printers that are accessible over the Internet. These are printers used by universities, businesses and the U.S. government. The misconfiguration is allowing unauthorized individuals […]
A guide published by the American Health Management Association (AHIMA) aims to help healthcare organizations create a comprehensive cybersecurity plan. It is necessary for healthcare organizations to develop and maintain an organization-wide framework that manages […]
Anti-malware firm Malwarebytes released a new report covering ransomware attacks up to the end of November 2017. Ransomware attacks increased by 62%, because criminal gangs and cybercriminals use them to make money quickly. Since September […]
A scrub nurse was fired for violating the HIPAA Rules. Allegedly, a scrub nurse photographed the genitals of an employee–patient undergoing incision hernia surgery at Washington Hospital. She used her mobile phone to take photos […]
Wager Evans Dental in Reno, NV had to deal with a ransomware attack that kept them from accessing dental records and images for five days. The ransomware attack happened on October 30, 2017. A report […]
Protenus just released the November healthcare data breach report and it revealed a decrease in the number of reported healthcare data breaches and the number of patient records exposed for this month. November only had […]
Austin Manual Therapy (AMT) notified 1,750 of its patients of a potential breach of their protected health information. Allegedly, a criminal attacker accessed AMT’s computer system and may have stolen their PHI. A leading national […]
Two HIPAA-covered entities announced the exposure of patients’ protected health information. The first is Washington Health System Greene in Waynesburg, PA. The other one is Midland Memorial Hospital in Midland, TX. The protected health information […]
The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) and state attorneys general continued to aggressively pursue financial settlements for HIPAA Rules violations in 2017. For the 9 HIPAA settlements and one […]
21st Century Oncology agreed to pay the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) a settlement fee to resolve its HIPAA violations which was discovered when a 2015 PHI breach involving […]
The American Medical Association (AMA) and Accenture surveyed 1,300 physicians in the United States to know what physicians think about cybersecurity. Based on the responses, it seems sure that cyberattacks will happen. What’s uncertain is […]
Thieves stole a computer used by UNC Dermatology & Skin Cancer Center in Chapel Hill, NC on October 8, 2017. The stolen computer’s database contained the protected health information of about 24,000 patients who visited […]
The Oklahoma Department of Human Services had a data breach in April 2016. After discovering the breach, Oklahoma DHS notified the people impacted by the breach and the DHS’ Office of Inspector General, but not […]
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