Senate Fails to Remove Ban on Funding of National Patient Identifier
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is prohibited from using any of its budget to fund the development and implementation of a national patient identifier, but there was hope that the ban...
View ArticleSenator Demands Answers Over Exposure of Medical Images in Unsecured PACS
Sen. Mark Warner (D-Virginia) has written to TridentUSA demanding answers about a breach of sensitive medical images at one of its affiliates, MobileXUSA. Sen. Warner is the co-founder of the Senate...
View ArticleSen. Rand Paul Introduces National Patient Identifier Repeal Act
Sen. Rand Paul, M.D., (R-Kentucky) has introduced a new bill that attempts to have the national patient identifier provision of HIPAA permanently removed due to privacy concerns over the implementation...
View ArticlePHI Potentially Compromised in Cybersecurity Breach at North Florida OB-GYN
Jacksonville, FL-based North Florida OB-GYN has discovered hackers gained access to certain parts of its computer system containing patients’ personal and health information and deployed a virus that...
View ArticleDental Practice Fined $10,000 for PHI Disclosures on Yelp
The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights has agreed to settle a HIPAA violation case with Elite Dental Associates over the impermissible disclosure of multiple patients’...
View ArticlePulse Connect, GlobalProtect, Fortigate VPN Vulnerabilities Being Actively...
Vulnerabilities in popular VPN products from Pulse Secure, FortiGuard, and Palo Alto are being actively exploited by advanced persistent threat (APT) actors to gain access to vulnerable VPNs and...
View ArticleNew York Legislation Prohibits First Responders from Selling Patient Data for...
On October 7, 2019, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed new legislation into law – S.4119/A.230 – that prohibits first responders and ambulance service personnel from selling or disclosing patient...
View ArticlePhiladelphia Department of Public Health Data Breach Exposed Data of...
The Philadelphia Department of Public Health (PDPH) has discovered sensitive information of patients with hepatitis B and hepatitis C has been exposed over the internet and could be accessed by anyone...
View ArticleRoger Severino Gives Update on OCR HIPAA Enforcement Priorities
Roger Severino, Director of the HHS’ Office for Civil Rights, has given an update on OCR’s HIPAA enforcement priorities at the OCR/NIST 11th Annual HIPAA Conference in Washington D.C. Severino...
View ArticleVA OIG: Records of Thousands of Veterans Exposed to 25,000 VA Employees via...
Internal communications, disability claims, and health information of thousands of veterans have been exposed internally and could be accessed by Department of Veteran Affairs employees who were not...
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September 2019 Healthcare Data Breach Report
September saw 36 healthcare data breaches of more than 500 records reported to the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights, which represents a 26.53% decrease in breaches from...
View Article76% of SMBs Have Experienced a Data Breach in the Past Year
A recent survey conducted by the Ponemon Institute on behalf of Keeper Security has revealed 76% of small and medium sized businesses in the United States have experienced a data breach in the past 12...
View ArticleSlew of HIPAA Violations Leads to $2.15 Million Civil Monetary Penalty for...
The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights has imposed a $2.15 million civil monetary penalty against the Miami, FL-based nonprofit academic medical system, Jackson Health...
View ArticleLack of Encryption Leads to $3 Million HIPAA Penalty for New York Medical Center
The University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC) has paid a $3 million HIPAA penalty for the failure to encrypt mobile devices and other HIPAA violations. URMC is one of the largest health systems in...
View ArticleTexas Health and Human Services Commission Pays $1.6 Million HIPAA Penalty
The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has imposed a $1.6 million civil monetary penalty (CMP) on Texas Health and Human Services Commission (TX HHSC) for multiple...
View ArticleHHS Increases Civil Monetary Penalties for HIPAA Violations in Line with...
The U.S Department of Health and Human Services’ has increased the civil monetary penalties for HIPAA violations to take inflation into account, in accordance with the Inflation Adjustment Act. The...
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Sen. Warner Demands Answers from HHS Over Apparent Lack of Response to Major...
U.S. Senator, Mark. R. Warner (D-VA) has written to the Director of the HHS’ Office for Civil Rights, Roger Severino, expressing concern over the HHS response to the mass exposure of medical images by...
View ArticleGoogle Confirms it has Legitimate Access to Millions of Ascension Patients’...
Following a report in the Wall Street Journal, Google has confirmed it is collaborating with one of the largest healthcare systems in the United States, which gives it access to a huge volume of...
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TigerConnect Survey Finds 89% of Healthcare Providers Still Use Fax Machines...
TigerConnect has released its 2019 State of Healthcare Communications Report, which shows that continuing reliance on decades-old, inefficient communications technology is negatively impacting patients...
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Update Issued on Unsecured PACS as Exposed Medical Image Total Rises to 1.19...
It has been 60 days since Greenbone Networks uncovered the extent to which medical images in Picture Archiving and Communication Systems (PACS) servers are being exposed online. In an updated report,...
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