Working in healthcare requires a good working knowledge of HIPAA rules. It requires diligence to ensure compliance with HIPAA rules. When HIPAA rules are violated, there are consequences, whether a healthcare employee does it accidentally […]
Based on the Post and Courier report, 13 Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) employees were terminated last year because of snooping on patient records, which is a violation of HIPAA Rules. MUSC had a […]
TitanHQ released SpamTitan v7.00, which is the new version of its cloud-based anti spam service. SpamTitan v7.00 has updated features that can protect users more effectively from malicious emails and known threats. It also includes […]
The protected health information of some patients and payment guarantors were compromised because the unencrypted laptop computer that Clinical Pathology Laboratories Southeast Inc (CPLSE) issued to an employee was stolen. CPLSE took immediate action so […]
The protected health information of over 35,000 patients at ATI Physical Therapy was potentially accessed by unauthorized persons due to a phishing attack on some employees’ email accounts. ATI discovered the security breach on January […]
RoxSan Pharmacy based in Beverly Hills, CA mailed breach notification letters last month to 1,049 patients. The patients’ protected health information was disclosed to a business associate through unencrypted email on January 20, 2015. The […]
The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General released its review findings on HHS’ compliance with the Federal Information Security Modernization Act (FISMA) of 2014. OIG noted the improvements HHS made to […]
Malicious persons accessed the email accounts of four employees working in Primary Health Care Inc., which is a non-profit network of community health centers in Des Moines, Marshalltown and Ames, IA. The unauthorized persons may […]
QuadMed, a medical, fitness, physical therapy, laboratory and pharmacy services provider based in Wisconsin, sent notification letters by mail to 9,854 patients informing them that their PHI was potentially viewed without authorization during a privacy […]
BJC Healthcare, a non-profit healthcare system, runs two nationally recognized hospitals in St. Louis, Missouri namely St. Louis Children’s Hospital and Barnes-Jewish Hospital plus 13 other hospitals. It has over 31,000 employees, admits more than […]
Department of Health and Human Services’ (HSS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) Director Roger Severino gave some hints on the likely changes affecting the HIPAA in 2018. Because the Trump administration lobbied for a decrease […]
The Alabama Senate unanimously passed the Alabama Data Breach Notification Act (Senate Bill 318) last February 2017, so now the bill is in the hands of the House of Representatives. Alabama and South Dakota are […]
Two separate incidents of email-related data breaches were recently reported to OCR. The covered entities involved were Flexible Benefit Service Corportation (Flex) and Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services (KDADS). The protected health information […]
The IBM X-Force Threat Intelligence Report mentioned that 71% of healthcare data breaches are because of employee actions. There are two types of employee-related data breaches. Malicious insiders comprise 25% of healthcare data breaches and […]
The Federal Policy for the Protection of Human Subjects was supposed to take effect on January 19, 2018. But its implementation was delayed by 6 months. Compliance date was changed to July 19, 2018. The […]
PhishMe is the top provider of human phishing defense solutions that started its operations in 2007. It recently announced its change in branding beginning February 26, 2018 as it was acquired by a private equity […]
St. Peter’s Surgery & Endoscopy Center in New York was attacked by malware that resulted to giving hackers access to the healthcare data of about 135,000 patients. This is the second largest healthcare data breach […]
Tufts Health Plan had a data breach that exposed the health plan member ID numbers of 70,320 members. The mailing vendor of Tufts Health Plan sent Preferred ID cards to Tufts Medicare Advantage members from […]
The Protenus Healthcare Breach Barometer report recently published that about 473,807 patient medical records were exposed or stolen in January 2018. That figure is not yet final as 11 of the 37 breaches have yet […]
Health Net California, a benefit-provider for federal employees, has been tagged as unwilling to submit to a recent security audit according to the Flash Audit Alert issued by the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) […]
An online attack on the medical records of White and Bright Family Dental patients was uncovered on January 30, 2018. Hackers were able to access one of the servers of the dental practice which is […]
The legal firm Salem and Green, a business associate of Sutter Health, had a phishing attack resulting in exposure of the protected health information of certain patients. A staff of Salem and Green received a […]
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