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Ponemon: 89 Percent of Healthcare Organizations Have Experienced a Data Breach
This week saw the publication of the Ponemon Institute’s Sixth Annual Benchmark Study on Privacy and Security of Healthcare Data. This year’s study shows 89% of healthcare organizations have now...
View ArticleLaptop Thefts Expose the PHI of California Healthcare Patients
Three potential healthcare data breaches have been recently reported, two of which occurred as a result of the theft of laptop computers and exposed the protected health information (PHI) of healthcare...
View Article2,100 Veterans Had Their PHI Exposed in April
Each month the Department of Veteran Affairs issues a report to congress on the information security incidents experienced by VA facilities over the course of the month. Protected health information...
View ArticleZocdoc Notifies Patients of Breach Discovered in June 2015
This week, Zocdoc – an online medical booking system – notified the California Attorney General’s office of a breach of personal information that was first identified almost a year ago. Programming...
View Article4000 Michigan Chiropractic Patients Notified of Potential Data Breach
4,082 patients of Complete Chiropractic & Bodywork Therapies (CCBT) of Ann Arbor, MI., have been notified of a potential breach of protected health information after malware was discovered on one...
View ArticleApology Issued by Sharp Grossmont Hospital for Filming and Sharing Videos of...
An apology has been issued by Sharp Grossmont Hospital for violating the privacy of patients by filming them undergoing surgical procedures and subsequently sharing those videos with a third party....
View Article95K More Patients Potentially Impacted by Bizmatics Data Breach
The Office for Civil Rights has received two further breach reports from healthcare providers impacted by the Bizmatics data breach. In total, almost 95,000 more patients have potentially had their...
View ArticleMedical Colleagues of Texas Hacking Incident Impacts 68K Patients
Medical Colleagues of Texas, a physicians’ group in Katy, TX., has discovered an unauthorized individual gained access to its system containing the records of more than 68,000 patients. The exact...
View ArticleHHS Announces Release of the Final Data Security Policy Principles Framework
HHS Secretary Sylvia Matthews Burwell has announced the release of the final Data Security Policy Principles Framework for the Precision Medicine Initiative (PMI) which was launched by President Obama...
View ArticleTucson Emergency Room Patients’ PHI Stolen from Physician’s Vehicle
Approximately 1,000 patients in Southern Arizona have been notified of a breach of protected health information following the theft of a physician’s logbook. The logbook had been left in the vehicle of...
View ArticleCHIME Launches New Cybersecurity Center and Program Office
The College of Healthcare Information Executives (CHIME) has announced the opening of a new Cybersecurity Center and Program Office which will help healthcare organizations deal with cyber threats and...
View ArticleHealthcare Providers Violate HIPAA Responding to Negative Yelp Reviews
Some healthcare providers have violated patient privacy and HIPAA Rules when responding to negative comments on Yelp and similar review sites according to a recent ProPublica report. For the report,...
View Article40K Podiatry Patients Warned of PHI Exposure
Stamford Podiatry Group P.C., has discovered an unauthorized third party gained access to its computer systems for a period of almost two months earlier this year. The intruder was able to view company...
View ArticleOCR Rules Townsend Violated the HIPAA Privacy Rule
The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has recently ruled that a former town administrator of Townsend, MA., violated the HIPAA Privacy Rule in June last year when...
View ArticleIntegrated Health Solutions Notifies 20K Patients of EHR Breach
Easton, Pennsylvania-based healthcare provider Integrated Health Solutions P.C., has notified 19,776 of its patients that their protected health information may have been accessed by a hacker. The...
View ArticleProMedica Uncovers Unauthorized Accessing of PHI by 7 Employees
ProMedica has recently discovered that seven of its employees had been improperly accessing the protected health information of patients for almost two years. The employees in question had been granted...
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ONC Releases Videos Explaining Patients’ HIPAA Rights
Earlier this year, the HHS’ Office for Civil Right (OCR) released guidance for healthcare organizations on patients’ HIPAA rights in an attempt to clear up confusion over access and ensure that covered...
View ArticleUp to 400,000 Prisoners’ PHI and SSNs Exposed
Up to 400,000 current and former prisoners incarcerated by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation between 1996 and 2014 have potentially had their Social Security numbers, medical...
View ArticleTwo Healthcare Providers Announce Billing-Related PHI Breaches
Loyola University Medical Center and University of New Mexico Hospital have discovered separate mailing-related privacy breaches and have started notifying patients of the exposure of a limited amount...
View ArticleCloud-Based EHR Company Settles with FTC over Alleged Privacy Violations
Cloud-based EHR company Practice Fusion has agreed to settle a case with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) after allegedly misleading consumers about the privacy of information collected by the...
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