Data Theft and Social Engineering Biggest Concerns for Healthcare CIOs
The College of Healthcare Information Management (CHIME) has explored the deepest, darkest fears of healthcare chief information (CIOs) and chief information security officers (CISOs) in a recent...
View ArticleU.S. Court of Appeal Grants Stay in FTC V LabMD Case
There has been a long running battle between the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and LabMD over the accidental exposure and disclosure of sensitive personal information of patients and the actions LabMD...
View ArticleHealthcare Data Breaches Fell in October
There has been a fall in the number of data breaches reported by healthcare organizations in the United States in October, according to the latest Breach Barometer report from Protenus. This is the...
View ArticleHospital Employee Jailed for Credit Card Theft
An employee of Banner Boswell Hospital in Sun City, AZ has been arrested and jailed for stealing credit card details from hospital patients. Filip Chudziak, 40, of Surprise, AZ was charged with...
View ArticleONC Issues Challenge to Develop a New Online Model Privacy Notice Generator
The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) has challenged designers, developers, and health data privacy experts to create a...
View ArticleSecurity Risks of Unencrypted Pages Evaluated
Pagers are still extensively used in the healthcare industry even though the devices have been shown to pose a considerable security risk. Trend Micro has recently demonstrated – in the company’s...
View ArticleJoint Commission Ban on Secure Messaging for Orders Remains in Place
The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare’s (Joint Commission) ban on the use of secure text messaging platforms for patient care orders will remain in place, according to its December...
View ArticleFairbanks Hospital Alerts Patients to Potential 3-Year Internal HIPAA Breach
Fairbanks Hospital in Indianapolis, IN., has discovered that the electronic health information of its patients could have been accessed by all of its employees for a period of at least three years....
View ArticleIncrease in Ransomware and Cyberattacks Linked to Fall in Price of Health Data
The value of health records on the black market dropped substantially in 2016. A set of health records is now reportedly attracting a price of between $1.50 and $10, according to a recent report from...
View ArticlePatient Posts PHI of New Hampshire State Psychiatric Hospital Patients Online
New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services has alerted approximately 15,000 patients to a breach of some of their personal and highly sensitive information. Patient data were accessed by a...
View ArticleNew Report Published on Privacy Risks of Personal Health Wearable Devices
Wearable technology is now ubiquitous. Consumers have embraced the wide range of trackers and health apps that have come to market in recent years and manufacturers have responded to demand and have...
View ArticleRegular PHI Access Log Audits Can Prevent Major PHI Breaches
Infirmary Health has announced that an employee has been fired after being discovered to have accessed the health records of approximately 1,000 patients without authorization. The individual was...
View Article108 L.A. County Employees Fall for Phishing Attack: 756,000 Impacted
It has taken some time for the County of Los Angeles to announce it was the victim of a major phishing attack, especially considering the attack was discovered within 24 hours of the May, 2016 breach....
View ArticleTigerText Announces Record-Breaking Year for Growth
TigerText, the nation’s leading secure healthcare messaging platform provider, has announced it has recorded another record-breaking year for growth, signing up over 300 healthcare organizations in...
View ArticleLargest Healthcare Data Breaches of 2016
2016 was a particularly bad year for healthcare data breaches. While the numbers of records exposed was nowhere near the level of 2015 – 15,936,849 records compared to 113,267,174 in 2015 – more...
View ArticleMassachusetts Data Breach Notification Archive Now Available Online
The Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation of the state of Massachusetts has taken a major step toward improving transparency by making its data breach notification archive available to the...
View Article11GB of Sensitive Data Left Unprotected by Department of Defense Subcontractor
A security researcher has discovered that the sensitive data of psychologists, doctors and other health workers employed by the United States Special Operations Command (SOCOM) have been exposed on the...
View ArticlePatients Holding Back Health Information Over Fears of Data Privacy
A fully interoperable health system is becoming closer to reality. Barriers to health data sharing are being removed and the ONC and HHS’ Office for Civil Rights are stepping up their efforts to...
View ArticleFetal Tissue Firms Guilty of Systemic HIPAA Violations
The U.S. House of Representatives Select Investigative Panel has published the findings from its investigation into the sale of fetal tissue by abortion clinics, revealing systemic HIPAA violations by...
View ArticleForeign Government-Backed Hacker Was Behind 2015 Anthem Breach
The massive 2015 data breach at Anthem Inc., which resulted in the theft of more than 78.8 million health plan members’ records, was likely the work of a foreign government-backed hacker, according to...
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