HIPAA-Compliance Still A Problem for Small Practices
While large healthcare systems have got to grips with HIPAA Rules and have implemented controls to safeguard ePHI from external and internal threats, small practices are still struggling with their...
View ArticleFHN Memorial Hospital Announces Hard Drive Theft and PHI Exposure
FHN Memorial Hospital in Freeport, IL., has announced that a computer hard drive was stolen from the hospital in December, 2015. Spreadsheets and internal reports were stored on the drive which...
View ArticleInvestigation Launched into Main Life Health Spear Phishing Attack
Main Line Health has fallen victim to a spear phishing attack that has resulted in the data of employees being sent to a scammer. This is the fourth such case discovered in the past two weeks that has...
View ArticleData Breach Discovered by the Eye Institute of Corpus Christi
The Eye Institute of Corpus Christi, a full service eye care, diagnosis, and treatment clinic in Texas, has discovered that individuals gained access to the records of all of its patients, downloaded...
View ArticleStaff Email Accounts Compromised in City of Hope Hospital Phishing Attack
A phishing attack on California’s City of Hope Hospital has resulted in four staff email accounts being compromised. Three out of the four compromised email accounts contained a limited amount of...
View ArticleNursing Home Residents’ PHI Accidentally Disclosed by Iowa DHS
Protected health information of 425 nursing home patients has been accidentally mailed to 12 nursing home facilities by the Iowa Department of Human Services. The HIPAA breach occurred in December...
View Article21st Century Oncology Advises 2.2M Patients of Hacking Incident
In October, a hacker gained access to a patient database at 21st Century Oncology containing insurance data and Social Security numbers of patients. The incident is not of the order of the breaches at...
View ArticlePatients Warned of PHI Exposure After Premier Healthcare Laptop Theft
More than 200,000 patients have been warned that their protected health information has potentially been accessed after an unencrypted laptop computer was stolen from Premier Healthcare in Bloomington,...
View ArticleVA Information Security Report for January Released
The Department of Veteran Affairs has released its monthly report to congress detailing the privacy and security incidents reported in January, 2016. 44% more veterans were affected by privacy and...
View ArticleAlmost 13000 Affected by Recent Pharmacy Data Breaches
Three data breaches have been reported by pharmacy stores in the past two months, resulting in the PHI of almost 13,000 pharmacy customers being exposed or disclosed to unauthorized individuals....
View ArticleLost Flash Drive Exposes Data of Karmanos Cancer Center Patients
An unencrypted flash drive containing the protected health information of 2,808 patients of the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Center has been declared lost. The flash drive had been mailed to Barbara Ann...
View ArticleSt. Joseph Health Settles Class Action Data Breach Lawsuit
St. Joseph Health System has settled a class action lawsuit filed by two plaintiffs for the breach of 31,800 patient health records that took place in 2012. A settlement of $15 million will be split...
View ArticleLaborers Funds Administrative Office of Northern California Reports HIPAA Breach
The Laborers Funds Administrative Office of Northern California has announced it has experienced a HIPAA security incident that has resulted in the protected health information of participants being...
View ArticleStolen Premier Healthcare Laptop Returned: No PHI Accessed Says Pondurance
When a healthcare laptop is stolen it is exceptionally rare for the device to be recovered. However, Premier Healthcare LLC., has reported that the laptop computer stolen from its billing department on...
View ArticleOCR Clarifies How HIPAA Rules Apply to Workplace Wellness Programs
Office for Civil Rights Director Jocelyn Samuels has written a blog post to clear up confusion about how HIPAA Rules apply to workplace wellness programs provided through employer-sponsored group...
View ArticleEHR of Geauga Medical Center Improperly Accessed by Employee
A former employee of University Hospitals Geauga Medical Center in Chardon, OH., has been discovered to have improperly accessed the protected health information of 677 patients. An internal review of...
View Article6,893 Patient Records Exposed Due to Centers Plan for Healthy Living Laptop...
Centers Plan for Healthy Living, a Staten Island NY-based managed care organization, has announced that a laptop computer containing the protected health information of Medicare/Medicaid recipients has...
View ArticleVirtua Medical Group Vendor Error Puts Patient Data in Search Engines
Virtua Medical Group has notified 1,654 patients that some of their protected health information had been accidentally indexed by search engines and was accessible over the Internet. An error was made...
View ArticleJASACare Email System Breach Impacts 1,154 Patients
JASACare, a New York-based home care services provider, has reported it has been attacked by hackers who managed to gain access to its email system. The attack is believed to have been conducted in...
View ArticleFebruary Information Security Report Released by VA
The Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) may have suffered fewer security incidents in February; however, the number of veterans affected was significantly higher than January. There was also a major...
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