Compliance August 25, 2019 HIPAA Compliance & iCloud We look at HIPAA compliance and iCloud because, as more and more businesses take advantage of cloud computing, an important question for Covered Entities to ... Read more
Compliance August 24, 2019 3,000 Records Potentially Compromised in Rhode Island Healthcare Attack Rhode Island Ear, Nose and Throat Physicians Inc. (RIENT) is contacting 2,943 patients to make them aware that some of their health information was saved ... Read more
Compliance August 24, 2019 10,000 Patients Have Personal Data Impacted in Massachusetts General Hospital Breach Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) has identified that computer applications used by security experts in its Department of Neurology have been infiltrated using unauthorized access. The ... Read more
Compliance August 22, 2019 Data Breach Exposes Medical Records of Western Connecticut Health Network Patients Nuvance Health has started getting in touch with certain Western Connecticut Health Network (WCHN) patients to make them aware that some of their protected health ... Read more
Tools & Practices August 16, 2019 Washington Hospital Hit with $1m Ransom Demand A ransomware attack on an Aberdeen, WA-hospital and associated clinics is still wreaking havoc over two months after the initial attack took place. The cybercriminals ... Read more
Compliance August 12, 2019 Lost Thumb Drive was used to Store PHI of Renown Health Patients Renown Health, the largest healthcare supplier in Northern Nevada, has started getting in touch with certain patients to make them aware that some of their ... Read more
Compliance August 4, 2019 Emergency Notifications Systems & Business HIPAA-Compliance Emergency notification systems for business are software services that are often implemented to alert personnel to the risk of danger. Situation that they are used ... Read more
Compliance July 24, 2019 AMCA Breach Impacts 2.2 Million Patients of Clinical Pathology Laboratories It has recently been discovered that the protected health information (PHI) of approximately 2.2 million of patients of Clinical Pathology Laboratories in Texas may have ... Read more
Compliance July 21, 2019 25,000 Adirondack Health Patients Hit by Email Account Hack Vermont-based Adirondack Health is getting in touch with around 25,000 patients that some of their protected health information has potentially been obtained by a cyber ... Read more
Security Breaches July 12, 2019 Tennessee Hospice Phishing Attack may have Impacted Sensitive Data A provider of end-of-life care, palliative care, bereavement support and community education based in Alive Hospice in Nashville, Tennessee has revealed that the email account ... Read more
Compliance July 11, 2019 One-Year Prison Sentence for TermPatient Care Coordinator Following HIPAA Violation A former patient care coordinator based at University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) has been given a one-year prisons sentence for accessing the medical records ... Read more
Compliance July 8, 2019 Unauthorized Use of PHI as Teaching Tool Leads to Legal Action by Student A medical student at Marshall University is suing the institution, along with Cabell Huntington Hospital, in relation to the unauthorized sharing of some of his ... Read more
Compliance July 7, 2019 Phishing Attack Impacts PHI of 10,893 Summa Health Patients It was discovered on on May 1 that up to four employee email accounts containing patients’ protected health information (PHI) have been infiltrated at Akron, ... Read more
Trends & Reports June 30, 2019 HIPAA Enforcement Safe Harbor Called for in HELP Committee Bill There may be some implications for HIPAA-covered entities after the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee approved the Lower Health Care Costs (LHCC) ... Read more
Tools & Practices June 28, 2019 Allowable Uses and Disclosures of PHI for Care Coordination and Continuity of Care Clarified by OCR The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights has released new HIPAA guidance for health plans on how protected health information can ... Read more
Security Breaches June 26, 2019 California and Illinois Clinics Discover Ransomware Attacks Quantum Vision Centers and Eye Surgery Center patients located in Illinois are being contact to make them aware that some of their protected health information ... Read more
Security Breaches June 22, 2019 645,000 Clients of Oregon Department of Human Services Alerted Regarding Phishing Breach The Oregon Department of Human Services (ODHS) is making contact with 645,000 clients to advise them that some of their personal information may have been ... Read more
Compliance June 6, 2019 AMCA Breach Affects Almost 7.7 Million Patients After reports that the data breach at American Medical Collection Agency (AMCA) impacted the records of 11.9 million Quest Diagnostics patients, comes revelation that another ... Read more
Tools & Practices May 21, 2019 PHI Uploaded to Unapproved and Unsecured Cloud Service Used by UMC Physicians UMC Physicians, based in Lubbock, is contacting patients of UMC Southwest Gastroenterology to make them aware that some of their protected health information has been ... Read more
Compliance May 20, 2019 Verity Health’s St. Vincent Medical Center Reports Phishing Attack St. Vincent Medical Center, a part of Verity Health System, has announced a staff email account has been hacked following a response to a phishing ... Read more
Security Breaches May 10, 2019 Bodybuilding.com Data Breach Impacts 3,193 Employees The bodybuilding and personal fitness website Bodybuilding.com has revealed it has had to deal with a security incident that may have lead to the information ... Read more
Compliance May 4, 2019 Court Rules that Negligence Claim Based on HIPAA Violation can Proceed in Arizona An Arizona man who submitted a legal action against Costco in relation to a privacy violation and had the lawsuit thrown out by the trial ... Read more
Compliance May 2, 2019 Business Associate Phishing Attack Impacts PHI of 17,531 Patients Women’s Health USA Inc., an Avon, CT-based business associate that supplies a range of practice management services to healthcare groups, has suffered a phishing attack ... Read more
Security Breaches April 28, 2019 HHS Reforms HITECH Act Penalties for HIPAA Breaches The Department of Health and Human Services has published a notification of enforcement discretion in relation to the civil monetary penalties that are applied when ... Read more
Security Breaches April 26, 2019 Medical Billing Service Provider Suffers Ransomware Attack 7 Months After Computer Breach Massachusetts-based supplier of medical billing services Doctors’ Management Service Inc. noticed that malicious software had been downloaded to its network which stopped files from being ... Read more
Security Breaches April 26, 2019 EmCare Phishing Attack Exposes 60,000 Records The Dallas, TX-based physician staffing company EmCare has revealed that it has been impacted by a data breach that has impacted around 60,000 individuals, 31,000 ... Read more
Security Breaches April 20, 2019 11,639 Individuals Impacted by Riverplace Counseling Center Malware Attack Riverplace Counseling Center in Anoka, MN, has revealed that malware was discovered on its systems which may have allowed unauthorized individuals to obtain access to ... Read more
Security Breaches April 19, 2019 Servers Compromised and Virus Deployed at Centrelake Medical Group Centrelake Medical Group, a group of 8 medical imaging and oncology clinics in California, is notifying a number of patients that some of their protected ... Read more
Security Breaches April 16, 2019 $4.7 Million Settlement Agreed in Washington State University Data Breach Class Action Lawsuit In the past few days a $4.7 million settlement has been approved by the King County Superior Court to reimburse individuals whose personal information was ... Read more
Tools & Practices March 22, 2019 Can SparkPost be Deemed HIPAA Compliant? SparkPost is a widely-used email delivery and analytics platform that is implemented by many enterprises to send information to customers Healthcare bodies are required to ... Read more
