Trends & Reports September 21, 2015 Cancer Care Group HIPAA Settlement Announced The OCR has released details of a Cancer Care Group HIPAA settlement – the Indiana-based oncology private physician practice is to pay $750,000. The security ... Read more
Trends & Reports September 17, 2015 Mobile Device Security Risks Explained The use of mobile devices in healthcare offers a myriad of benefits; however there are a number of mobile device security risks that must be ... Read more
Trends & Reports September 15, 2015 TigerText: Voted One of the Best Places to Work in Healthcare in 2015 TigerText – a leading vendor of secure messaging solutions for the healthcare industry – has been voted one of the best places to work in ... Read more
Security Breaches September 13, 2015 Oakland Family Services Data Breach Announced The Oakland Family Services data breach was caused by an individual employee responding to a phishing email, potentially exposing the PHI of 16,000 patients. The ... Read more
Security Breaches September 11, 2015 Data Breach at Excellus BlueCross BlueShield Reported: 10 Million Records Exposed The PHI and PII of approximately 10 million individuals has been exposed in a data breach at Excellus BlueCross BlueShield in Western New York. During ... Read more
Compliance September 9, 2015 2016 Start for Phase 2 of the OCR HIPAA Compliance Audits The second phase of the OCR HIPAA compliance audits have been delayed for more than a year, but the wait is finally over, according to ... Read more
Security Breaches September 8, 2015 Microsoft Issues EHR Data Encryption Warning The effectiveness of EHR data encryption has been placed in doubt following the release of a research paper by Microsoft: A stern warning of data ... Read more
Trends & Reports September 5, 2015 FDA to Allocate More Resources to Assess High Risk Healthcare Mobile Apps There is considerable potential for mHealth apps to have a positive impact on the care provided to patients, although they also carry a risk of ... Read more
Compliance September 4, 2015 Employee Negligence is the Main Healthcare Data Breach Risk Successful hacks are headline news, and there have been a great deal reported so far in 2015; however, the main healthcare data breach risk is ... Read more
Security Breaches September 3, 2015 New Android Smartphone Data Security Warnings Issued An Android Smartphone data security warning has recently been issued by IBM’s X-Force Application Security Research Team. CheckPoint has also discovered Android security vulnerabilities which ... Read more
Compliance August 29, 2015 KPMG Healthcare Cyberattack Survey: 81% of Companies Suffered an attack in Past 2 Years A new healthcare cyberattack survey commissioned by KPMG highlights the dire state of preparedness by healthcare organizations, the severity of the current threat landscape, and ... Read more
Security Breaches August 29, 2015 Social App Security Vulnerabilities Leaves VA Vulnerable to Cyberattacks The Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) has been warned that social app security vulnerabilities have potential to expose the data of veterans, according to a ... Read more
Compliance August 28, 2015 Cybersecurity Regulations are to be Enforced by the FTC? A recent decision by the 3rd Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals could mean that cybersecurity regulations are to be enforced by the FTC. The Department ... Read more
Trends & Reports August 27, 2015 New Study Shows Improvements in Diabetes Management by Text Messaging A new study published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research has highlighted improvements in diabetes management by text messaging. Insulin dependent patients must monitor ... Read more
Security Breaches August 25, 2015 40% of Americans are Breach Victims, Says Leading Enterprise Cloud Security Provider A leading enterprise cloud security provider, iSherrif, has recently released a new analysis of data breach statistics which suggest that almost 45% of Americans have ... Read more
Security Breaches August 21, 2015 Summary of July 2015 Data Breaches Before February 2015, 2014 had been referred to as the year of the data breach, with a huge number of data breaches reported, and some ... Read more
Trends & Reports August 20, 2015 ONC Guidance on HIPAA and Interoperability to be Issued New ONC Guidance on HIPAA and Interoperability will be issued this fall according to National Coordinator for Health IT, Dr. Karen DeSalvo. One of the ... Read more
Security Breaches August 18, 2015 SMS Text Message Hacking: A Worry for HIPAA Covered Entities This summer, two hackers successfully took control of a car – a Jeep Cherokee – by remotely hacking into its computer system and killing the ... Read more
Trends & Reports August 15, 2015 HHS Summary of HIPAA Rules Released HIPAA-covered entities must abide by Privacy, Security, and Breach Notification Rules, and the best place to start is with the basics, which are detailed in ... Read more
Security Breaches August 14, 2015 How to Mitigate Liability in a Data Breach Lawsuit A class-action lawsuit is virtually guaranteed to be filed if a data breach is suffered that exposes healthcare data or Social Security numbers of patients ... Read more
Trends & Reports August 12, 2015 The Rules for Journalists Reporting Protected Health Information Clarified The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press (RCFP), recently clarified the rules for journalists reporting protected health information after a recent media storm following ... Read more
Trends & Reports August 11, 2015 Wearables and HIPAA Rules: Are the Devices Covered? There is some confusion about wearables and HIPAA Rules. HIPAA covers much of the data collected by wearable devices, such as heart rate information and ... Read more
Trends & Reports August 5, 2015 Serious Drug Pump Security Risk Uncovered Hospira, a manufacturer of drug delivery pumps and medical devices, is the subject of a recent Food and Drug Administration warning about a serious drug ... Read more
Security Breaches August 4, 2015 Medical Informatics Engineering Cyberattack Update Few details of the Medical Informatics Engineering cyberattack were announced in June when the news of the data breach first surfaced; now, 6 weeks on, ... Read more
Trends & Reports July 30, 2015 Securing Electronic Health Records on Mobile Devices Healthcare providers operating BYOD schemes, and those that supply Smartphones and other mobile devices to staff, are at risk of suffering a data breach if ... Read more
Trends & Reports July 25, 2015 New Hospital Data Security Benchmarking Survey Results Released A new hospital data security benchmarking survey has been released by the American Hospital Association (AHA), with this year’s annual report, the 17th Annual Healthcare’s ... Read more
Trends & Reports July 24, 2015 HIPAA Privacy Rule Changes Closer as Cures Bill Passed by House The 21st Century Cures Bill recently went to the vote, and was passed by the House of Representatives by 344 to 77; should the bill ... Read more
Trends & Reports July 22, 2015 AHA Opposes HIPAA Health Plan Identifiers The Proposed Rule on HIPAA Health Plan Identifiers was published on September 5, 2012, by the Department of Health and Human Services, which placed a ... Read more
Compliance July 18, 2015 UCLA Health System Hack Uncovered A UCLA Health System hack has been uncovered in which 4.5 million patient health records have been accessed and potentially stolen. This may not be ... Read more
Trends & Reports July 18, 2015 BYOD Security Risks Sees Popularity of Schemes Fall Many hailed BYOD as being the answer to hospital communication problems; and while the schemes have proved highly popular; many now see the BYOD security ... Read more