The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General (OIG) has issued a report questioning the integrity of security systems at two managed care organizations (MCOs) in Arizona following security audits of the […]
Allergy Associates of Hartford, P.C. (Allergy Associates) has agreed to pay a fine of $125,000 to the Office of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights to settle alleged violations of the Health Insurance Portability […]
The U.S. Department of Justice has released an update on the investigation of the threat actors behind the SamSam ransomware attacks. SamSam ransomware is a custom infection used in targeted attacks against the healthcare industry […]
The American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA), a non-profit organisation dedicated to developing biomedical and health informatics to improve patient care, recently called on the Trump administration to reform data privacy rules in order to better […]
Researchers at Michigan State University and John Hopkins University have released a report containing their analysis of data breaches reported to the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) between October […]
The National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) is a US government organisation that builds and shares solutions to potential cybersecurity threats faced by US businesses. The NCCoE is a part of the National Institute of […]
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has drafted a Request for Information (RFI) to assess HIPAA Rules may be hindering patient information sharing. The move is in repose to complaints that healthcare providers […]
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Act has been passed by unanimously by Congress on November 13, 2018. The new legislation will allow the U.S. Department of Homeland Security will be forming a new agency […]
This week, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) has announced an update on the recent HealthCare.gov website breach. Last month, hackers gained access to a health insurance system that interacts with the HealthCare.gov website. […]
Inova Health System, a non-profit health organisation based in Falls Church, Virginia, has announced that it has experienced a data breach. The protected health information (PHI) of over 12,000 of its patients may have been […]
The HHS’ Office of Inspector General (OIG) has published the findings of an audit of the FDA’s policies and procedures for addressing medical device cybersecurity in the postmarket phase. The US Food and Drug Administration […]
Best Medical Transcription, a transcriptionist vendor, has been fined by the New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal for breaching HIPAA in 2016. The violation occurred while it was working as a business associate of […]
HIPAA’s email rules may be complicated at first glance, but ultimately can be broken down into a number of comprehensible stipulations and requirements. It is vital that any organisation has a good grasp of HIPAA’s […]
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