A recent joint cybersecurity alert published by the Cybersecurity Security and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) revealed that a hacking group connected to the Iranian government was detected exploiting […]
The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced the newly released version of its tool for Security Risk Assessment (SRA). The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology […]
HealthAlliance Hospital and its health record management vendor, Ciox Health, are facing a lawsuit for refusing to give a widow the medical records of her deceased husband. In October 2020, the husband of Sherry Russell, […]
Inova Health System in Falls Church, VA is one of the healthcare companies that lately confirmed the impact of the Blackbaud ransomware attack on its company. The information contained in a backup donor database included […]
A Federal judge dismissed a potential class-action lawsuit that was filed in June 2019 against UChicago Medicine, the University of Chicago, and Google. The lawsuit was a response to an alleged breach of HIPAA Rules […]
Compliancy Group has certified MeDLiTE Inc. as HIPAA-compliant after satisfactorily meeting all Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) requirements. MeDLite is a full-service medical billing firm based in Hackensack, NJ. MeDLiTE has been in […]
The Baton Rouge Clinic located in Louisiana suffered a cyberattack at the beginning of July that made its email and phone system inaccessible and constrained its laboratory and radiology services. The ransomware attack caused systems […]
The National Insider Threat Awareness Month (NITAM) is being observed this September 2020 for the second time. The whole month, resources are being made accessible to point out the value of discovering, blocking, and reporting […]
Recently, the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) and the eHealth Initiative & Foundation (eHI) issued a draft of a consumer privacy framework for health data to deal with the loopholes in legal protections for […]
There is a growing number of healthcare providers that are confirmed to have experienced a data breach as a result of the Blackbaud ransomware attack. Four more healthcare providers sent breach notification reports in the […]
Northwestern Memorial HealthCare has reported the potential exposure of the personal data of persons who donated to Northwestern Memorial HealthCare in the past due to a Blackbaud ransomware attack fairly recently. An unauthorized man or […]
Paramount Counseling Services (PCS) based in Whitefish Bay, WI, a mental health agency providing counseling and psychotherapy services to outpatients, has proven its compliance with the requirements of the Health Information Portability and Accountability Act […]
Konica Minolta Healthcare Americas Inc. is going to pay $500,000 as a financial penalty to bring to an end a case against Viztek LLC, its ex-subsidiary, to take care of False Claims Act violations in […]
The Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine, the American College of Radiology, and the Radiological Society of North America published an advisory with regards to online medical presentations and the possibility of inadvertent exposure of […]
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