Compliance

November 29, 2017

Medical College of Wisconsin Phishing Attack Affects 9,500 Patients

The exposure of approximately 9,500 patients’ protected health information at the Medical College of Wisconsin has been caused by a phishing attack. The attackers were ...

November 23, 2017

Suspected UPMC Susquehanna Phishing Attack Exposes 1,200 Patients’ PHI

A network of hospitals and medical centers in Williamsport, Wellsboro and Muncy in Pennsylvania, called UPMC Susquehannam has revealed that the protected health information of ...

November 16, 2017

Wombat Security Technologies Ranks #135 on Deloitte Technology Fast 500 List

Deloitte has released its latest Technology Fast 500 List – A list of the fastest growing companies in the technology, life sciences, and telecommunications sectors ...

November 16, 2017

Alex Azar Nominated for HHS Secretary by President Trump

Alex Azar, the former Deputy Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, is now the favorite to take over the reins from former ...

November 15, 2017

Cook County Health Patients Affected by Data Breach

Illinois-based Cook County Health and Hospitals System, a health system comprising two hospitals and more than a dozen community health centers in Cook County, has ...

November 13, 2017

Cloud Vendors to Watch in 2018

Businesses in all industry verticals are now taking advantage of the opportunities offered by the cloud, whether for IaaS, PaaS, or SaaS. The cloud allows ...

November 9, 2017

Ransomware Attack Affects 8,750 Patients According to Aging Agency

East Central Kansas Area Agency on Aging (ECKAAA), an Ottawa-based body, has reported that a ransomware attack has resulted in the encryption of files on ...

November 7, 2017

Breach of PHI at Texas Children’s Health Plan After Staff Member Sent Emails to Personal Account

A breach of HIPPA has occurred at the Texas Children’s Health Plan after it has been found that the protected health information (PHI) of 932 ...

November 3, 2017

New Variant of WannaCry Ransomware Detected in FirstHealth CyberAttack

A new variant of the WannaCry ransomware has been detected in a cyber attack on FirstHealth of the Carolinas, a Pinehurst, SC-based not for profit ...

November 2, 2017

PHI of 8,000 Patients Possibly Breached in Office Break In

An office break in and subsequent computer theft has lead to the possible exposing of the protected health information (PHI) of up to 8,000 clients ...

October 31, 2017

Dental Offices and HIPAA Compliance: What Needs to Be Addressed?

Dr. Joseph Beck became the first ever dentist to be receive a HIPAA violation fine in 2014. This alerted dental offices to HIPAA compliance and the ...

October 25, 2017

Spotinst Functions Launched: Spot Instances with Guaranteed Availability at the Lowest Price

Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud can bring in extra revenue by selling off excess cloud capacity. However, while this extra capacity ...

October 20, 2017

HHS Withdraws Proposed Rule for Health Plans Certification of Compliance

A new rule for certification of compliance for health plans was proposed by the HHS In January 2014, requiring all controlling health plans (CHPs) to ...

October 18, 2017

PHI of 10,500 Patients Found in Illinois Basement

The medical history of more than 10,000 patients have been discovered in a basement in Aurora, Illinois. The documentation was located at the house, rented ...

October 17, 2017

Medical Device Cybersecurity Emphasis for New AEHIS/ MDISS Partnership

A new working relationship d between CHIME’s Association for Executives in Healthcare Information Security (AEHIS) and the Foundation for Innovation, Translation and Safety Science’s Medical ...

October 16, 2017

51,000 Plan Subscribers Hit by Network Health Phishing Attack

Network Health has advised 51,232 of its plan subscribers that some of their protected health information (PHI) has possibly been accessed by unauthorized people. In ...

October 9, 2017

Hacking Group ‘The Dark Overlord’ Attacks Another Healthcare Organization

After a seemingly prolonged period of inactivity, the hacking group TheDarkOverlord has revealed another attack on a U.S. healthcare supplier, Mass-based SMART Physical Therapy (SMART ...

October 5, 2017

128,000 Arkansas Patients Attacked with Ransomware

128,000 patients at the Arkansas Oral Facial Surgery Center in Fayetteville have had their private information potentially impacted following a a ransomware. Ransomware was believed ...

October 4, 2017

Medical Records Illegally Acccessed at PeaceHealth Over Six-Year Period

It has been discovered that the medical records of almost 2,000 patients was illegally accessed by a former employee at PeaceHealth, a not-for-profit Catholic health system based ...

October 3, 2017

1,140 Patients Have Private Data Exposed at Our Lady of the Angels Hospital

An investigation has show that a former member of staff obtained the medical records of 1,140 patients without authorization at Our Lady of the Angels ...

October 2, 2017

Mercy Health Love County Hospital Breach Might Have Exposed Records of 13,000 Patients

The personal data of more than 13,000 patients at Mercy Health Love County Hospital in Oklahoma may have been breached. On June 23, 2017, the ...

September 28, 2017

HITRUST/AMA Begin Project to Assist Small Healthcare Firms with HIPAA Compliance

HITRUST has revealed it will be working with the American Medical Association (AMA) for a new project that will assist small healthcare companies with HIPAA ...

September 27, 2017

Skeddly Introduces Option of Deleting/Recreating Aurora RDS Clusters to Lower Cloud Costs

RDS instances used for staging and development do not need to run around the clock, yet many companies are not turning the lights off when ...

September 23, 2017

HHS Issues Partial HIPAA Privacy Rule Waiver in Hurricane Maria Disaster Zone

A partial waiver of HIPAA has been issued by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in the Hurricane Maria disaster area in Puerto ...

September 14, 2017

GorillaStack Named Startup Specialist of the Year at the 2017 ARN ICT Awards

GorillaStack, the Sydney-based provider of cloud cost optimization tools, was only formed in 2015 but the firm has certainly hit the ground running. The company ...

September 7, 2017

DivvyCloud Secures $6 Million in Series A Funding

The cloud automation and cost management platform provider DivvyCloud has secured $6 million in Series A Funding with the latest funding round led by RTP ...

September 1, 2017

Kaleida Health Suffers Second Phishing Attack in Space of 2 Months

Kaleida Health has announced an employee has fallen for a phishing scam that resulted in the protected health information of 744 patients being exposed, and ...

September 1, 2017

Hurricane Harvey Disaster Zone: HHS Issues Partial Waiver of HIPAA Sanctions

HHS Secretary Tom Price announced that OCRis issuing a partial waiver of sanctions and financial penalties for specific Privacy Rule breaches for hospitals in Texas ...

August 19, 2017

Noncompliance With HIPAA: Costs for Healthcare Organizations

Noncompliance with HIPAA can cost healthcare organizations dearly. If regulators discover willful violations of HIPAA Rules, multi-million-dollar fines are possible. Fines for Noncompliance with HIPAA ...

August 17, 2017

Worldwide Cybersecurity Spending in 2017 to Exceed $86.4 Billion

Gartner has released a new report predicting worldwide cybersecurity spending in 2017 will reach $86.4 billion. The information security market is now the fastest growing ...

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