October 25, 2017 Spotinst Functions Launched: Spot Instances with Guaranteed Availability at the Lowest Price Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud can bring in extra revenue by selling off excess cloud capacity. However, while this extra capacity ... Read more
October 20, 2017 HHS Withdraws Proposed Rule for Health Plans Certification of Compliance A new rule for certification of compliance for health plans was proposed by the HHS In January 2014, requiring all controlling health plans (CHPs) to ... Read more
October 18, 2017 PHI of 10,500 Patients Found in Illinois Basement The medical history of more than 10,000 patients have been discovered in a basement in Aurora, Illinois. The documentation was located at the house, rented ... Read more
October 17, 2017 Medical Device Cybersecurity Emphasis for New AEHIS/ MDISS Partnership A new working relationship d between CHIME’s Association for Executives in Healthcare Information Security (AEHIS) and the Foundation for Innovation, Translation and Safety Science’s Medical ... Read more
October 16, 2017 51,000 Plan Subscribers Hit by Network Health Phishing Attack Network Health has advised 51,232 of its plan subscribers that some of their protected health information (PHI) has possibly been accessed by unauthorized people. In ... Read more
October 9, 2017 Hacking Group ‘The Dark Overlord’ Attacks Another Healthcare Organization After a seemingly prolonged period of inactivity, the hacking group TheDarkOverlord has revealed another attack on a U.S. healthcare supplier, Mass-based SMART Physical Therapy (SMART ... Read more
October 5, 2017 128,000 Arkansas Patients Attacked with Ransomware 128,000 patients at the Arkansas Oral Facial Surgery Center in Fayetteville have had their private information potentially impacted following a a ransomware. Ransomware was believed ... Read more
October 4, 2017 Medical Records Illegally Acccessed at PeaceHealth Over Six-Year Period It has been discovered that the medical records of almost 2,000 patients was illegally accessed by a former employee at PeaceHealth, a not-for-profit Catholic health system based ... Read more
October 3, 2017 1,140 Patients Have Private Data Exposed at Our Lady of the Angels Hospital An investigation has show that a former member of staff obtained the medical records of 1,140 patients without authorization at Our Lady of the Angels ... Read more
October 2, 2017 Mercy Health Love County Hospital Breach Might Have Exposed Records of 13,000 Patients The personal data of more than 13,000 patients at Mercy Health Love County Hospital in Oklahoma may have been breached. On June 23, 2017, the ... Read more
September 28, 2017 HITRUST/AMA Begin Project to Assist Small Healthcare Firms with HIPAA Compliance HITRUST has revealed it will be working with the American Medical Association (AMA) for a new project that will assist small healthcare companies with HIPAA ... Read more
September 27, 2017 Skeddly Introduces Option of Deleting/Recreating Aurora RDS Clusters to Lower Cloud Costs RDS instances used for staging and development do not need to run around the clock, yet many companies are not turning the lights off when ... Read more
September 23, 2017 HHS Issues Partial HIPAA Privacy Rule Waiver in Hurricane Maria Disaster Zone A partial waiver of HIPAA has been issued by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in the Hurricane Maria disaster area in Puerto ... Read more
September 14, 2017 GorillaStack Named Startup Specialist of the Year at the 2017 ARN ICT Awards GorillaStack, the Sydney-based provider of cloud cost optimization tools, was only formed in 2015 but the firm has certainly hit the ground running. The company ... Read more
September 7, 2017 DivvyCloud Secures $6 Million in Series A Funding The cloud automation and cost management platform provider DivvyCloud has secured $6 million in Series A Funding with the latest funding round led by RTP ... Read more
September 1, 2017 Kaleida Health Suffers Second Phishing Attack in Space of 2 Months Kaleida Health has announced an employee has fallen for a phishing scam that resulted in the protected health information of 744 patients being exposed, and ... Read more
September 1, 2017 Hurricane Harvey Disaster Zone: HHS Issues Partial Waiver of HIPAA Sanctions HHS Secretary Tom Price announced that OCRis issuing a partial waiver of sanctions and financial penalties for specific Privacy Rule breaches for hospitals in Texas ... Read more
August 19, 2017 Noncompliance With HIPAA: Costs for Healthcare Organizations Noncompliance with HIPAA can cost healthcare organizations dearly. If regulators discover willful violations of HIPAA Rules, multi-million-dollar fines are possible. Fines for Noncompliance with HIPAA ... Read more
August 17, 2017 Worldwide Cybersecurity Spending in 2017 to Exceed $86.4 Billion Gartner has released a new report predicting worldwide cybersecurity spending in 2017 will reach $86.4 billion. The information security market is now the fastest growing ... Read more
August 14, 2017 City of Hope Phishing Attack Impacts 3,400 Patients A recent City of Hope phishing attack has potentially resulted in the PHI of 3,400 patients being accessed by cybercriminals. City of Hope employees were ... Read more
August 7, 2017 U.S. Senate Passes Jessie’s Law Allowing Drug Histories to be Shared with Doctors Last week, the U.S. Senate passed new legislation – Jessie’s Law – that allows details of patients’ past drug abuse to be shared with physician’s ... Read more
August 3, 2017 Mid-Year Healthcare Data Breach Report Shows Insiders Pose the Biggest Data Breach Risk Protenus has released its mid-year healthcare data breach report. The Breach Barometer reports chart the data breaches experienced by healthcare organizations each month and include ... Read more
August 2, 2017 2,789 Patients’ PHI Compromised in Phishing Attack Kaleida Health has announced that a phishing attack has resulted in an email account being compromised, and along with it, the protected health information of ... Read more
August 1, 2017 47% of Healthcare Orgs Have Had a HIPAA Data Breach in the Past 24 Months A recent survey conducted by KMPG has revealed that 47% of healthcare organizations have experienced a HIPAA data breach in the past 24 months. The ... Read more
August 1, 2017 Botmetric Raises $3 Million in Series A Funding Santa Clara, CA-based cloud management and optimization firm Botmetric has raised $3 million in Series A funding. The funding round was led by the Draper ... Read more
July 28, 2017 33% of Patients Access Their Health Data via Patient Portals The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Privacy Rule allow people to view information regarding their health stored by their providers. However, as revealed in ... Read more
July 25, 2017 Model Patient Request for Health Information Form Issued by AHIMA A model patient request for health information form has been issued by the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) that can be used by healthcare ... Read more
July 19, 2017 Securing Your Email Training Module Released by Wombat Security The security awareness training company Wombat Security Technologies has announced the release of a new series of training modules that can be used by businesses ... Read more
July 17, 2017 HHS Announces Closing Out of Office of the Chief Privacy Officer The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) will be closing out the Office of the Chief ... Read more
June 28, 2017 Visual Server Management Platform Launched by CloudRanger CloudRanger, a provider of simple backup solutions for AWS, has announced the launch of a new visual server management platform that gives users control over ... Read more