Remote Hacking of Medical Devices and Systems Tops ECRI’s 2019 List of Health...
The ECRI Institute, a non-profit organization that researches new approaches to improve patient care, has published its annual list of the top ten health technology hazards for 2019. The purpose of the...
View ArticleSummary of Recent Healthcare Data Breaches
A round up of healthcare data breaches recently announced by healthcare providers and business associates of HIPAA covered entities. Tillamook Chiropractic Clinic Discovers 26-Month Malware Infection...
View ArticleCybersecurity Best Practices for Device Manufacturers and Healthcare...
The Healthcare & Public Health Sector Coordinating Council (HSCC) has announced it will shortly issue voluntary cybersecurity best practices to help medical device manufacturers improve the...
View ArticleCalifornia HIV Patient PHI Breach Lawsuit Allowed to Move Forward
A lawsuit filed by Lambda Legal on behalf of a victim of a data breach that saw the highly sensitive protected health information of 93 lower-income HIV positive individuals stolen by unauthorized...
View ArticleHSS Secretary Issues Limited Waiver of HIPAA Penalties Following Declaration...
Following the presidential declaration of public health emergencies in the states of Florida and Georgia in the wake of hurricane Michael, secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)...
View ArticleMinnesota DHS Notifies 21,000 Patients That Their PHI Has Potentially Been...
The Minnesota Department of Human Services has mailed letters to approximately 21,000 individuals on medical assistance to alert them to a possible breach of their protected health information (PHI)...
View ArticleAetna Settles HIPAA Violation Case with State AGs
In 2017, errors occurred with two Aetna mailings that resulted in the impermissible disclosure of the protected health information of plan members, including HIV statuses and AFib diagnoses. A class...
View ArticleCMS Investigating 75,000-Record Breach of Federally Facilitated Exchanges...
The Centers for Medicaid & Medicare Services (CMS) has discovered hackers have gained access to a health insurance system that interacts with the HealthCare.gov website and have accessed files...
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OIG Publishes 2016 Medicaid Data Breach Report
A new report released by the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General (OIG) has revealed the vast majority of Medicaid data breaches are relatively minor and only affect an...
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September 2018 Healthcare Data Breach Report
For the second consecutive month there has been a reduction in both the number of reported healthcare data breaches and the number of exposed healthcare records. In September, there were 25 breaches of...
View ArticleStudy Reveals 75% of Employees Lack Security Awareness
For the past three years, security awareness training company MediaPRO has conducted an annual study of employees’ security awareness and knowledge of cybersecurity best practices. The study measures...
View ArticleOCR Launches Campaign to Raise Awareness of Civil Rights Protections for...
On October 26, 2017, President Donald Trump declared the opioid crisis a national public health emergency. The one-year anniversary of that declaration has seen a new opioid bill signed into law. On...
View ArticleImportant Cybersecurity Best Practices for Healthcare Organizations
The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights has drawn attention to basic cybersecurity safeguards that can be adopted by healthcare organizations to improve cyber resilience...
View Article$200,000 Settlement Agreed with Business Associate Behind Virtua Medical Data...
New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal has announced a $200,000 settlement has been agreed with Best Medical Transcription to resolve violations of the Health Insurance Portability and...
View ArticleFewer Than One Third of Healthcare Organizations Have a Comprehensive...
An alarming number of healthcare organizations do not have comprehensive cybersecurity programs in place, according to the recently published 2018 CHIME Healthcare’s Most Wired survey. The annual CHIME...
View ArticleQ3 Healthcare Data Breach Report: 4.39 Million Records Exposed in 117 Breaches
The latest installment of the Breach Barometer Report from Protenus shows there was a quarterly fall in the number of healthcare data breaches compared to Q2, 2018; however, the number of healthcare...
View ArticleOIG Finds Deficiencies in FDA’s Policies and Procedures to Address...
The HHS’ Office of Inspector General (OIG) has published the findings of an audit of the FDA’s policies and procedures for addressing medical device cybersecurity in the postmarket phase and has...
View ArticleHealthCare.gov Data Breach Exposed Personal Information of 94,000 Individuals
Last month, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that the HealthCare.gov website had been hacked and the sensitive data of approximately 75,000 individuals had potentially...
View ArticleCongress Passes CISA Act Which Calls for New Cybersecurity Agency Within DHS
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security will be forming a new agency solely focused on cybersecurity following the passing of new legislation by Congress. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security...
View ArticleDo HIPAA Rules Create Barriers That Prevent Information Sharing?
The HHS has drafted a Request for Information (RFI) to discover how HIPAA Rules are hampering patient information sharing and are making it difficult for healthcare providers to coordinate patient...
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