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August 14, 2017

City of Hope Phishing Attack Impacts 3,400 Patients

A recent City of Hope phishing attack has potentially resulted in the PHI of 3,400 patients being accessed by cybercriminals. City of Hope employees were ...

August 7, 2017

U.S. Senate Passes Jessie’s Law Allowing Drug Histories to be Shared with Doctors

Last week, the U.S. Senate passed new legislation – Jessie’s Law – that allows details of patients’ past drug abuse to be shared with physician’s ...

August 3, 2017

Mid-Year Healthcare Data Breach Report Shows Insiders Pose the Biggest Data Breach Risk

Protenus has released its mid-year healthcare data breach report. The Breach Barometer reports chart the data breaches experienced by healthcare organizations each month and include ...

August 2, 2017

2,789 Patients’ PHI Compromised in Phishing Attack

Kaleida Health has announced that a phishing attack has resulted in an email account being compromised, and along with it, the protected health information of ...

August 1, 2017

47% of Healthcare Orgs Have Had a HIPAA Data Breach in the Past 24 Months

A recent survey conducted by KMPG has revealed that 47% of healthcare organizations have experienced a HIPAA data breach in the past 24 months. The ...

August 1, 2017

Botmetric Raises $3 Million in Series A Funding

Santa Clara, CA-based cloud management and optimization firm Botmetric has raised $3 million in Series A funding. The funding round was led by the Draper ...

July 28, 2017

33% of Patients Access Their Health Data via Patient Portals

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Privacy Rule allow people to view information regarding their health stored by their providers. However, as revealed in ...

July 25, 2017

Model Patient Request for Health Information Form Issued by AHIMA

A model patient request for health information form has been issued by the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) that can be used by healthcare ...

July 19, 2017

Securing Your Email Training Module Released by Wombat Security

The security awareness training company Wombat Security Technologies has announced the release of a new series of training modules that can be used by businesses to ...

July 17, 2017

HHS Announces Closing Out of Office of the Chief Privacy Officer

The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) will be closing out the Office of the Chief ...

June 28, 2017

Visual Server Management Platform Launched by CloudRanger

CloudRanger, a provider of simple backup solutions for AWS, has announced the launch of a new visual server management platform that gives users control over ...

June 26, 2017

Healthcare Data Breach Resolution Costs Fall

Healthcare data breach resolution costs are still higher than all other industries, but the latest Ponemon Institute/IBM Security study has shown that for the first ...

June 24, 2017

Healthcare Data Breach Report Shows Breaches Are Taking Years to Detect

The latest healthcare data breach report issued by Protenus, in conjunction with databreaches.net, shows healthcare data breaches increased in May, with 37 breaches reported compared ...

June 22, 2017

Sophos Included in Gartner UTM Magic Quadrant for 2017

Sophos has announced it has been included in the 2017 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Unified Threat Management. Gartner’s Magic Quadrants include the best companies in ...

June 21, 2017

RightScale Shortlisted for 2017 SIIA CODiE Award

RightScale has been named a finalist in the Best Cloud Management category for the upcoming 2017 SIIA CODiE Awards – The only peer-reviewed program to ...

June 17, 2017

HHS Looking Into OCR’s Wall of Shame Following Criticism

The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights started publishing OCR’s ‘Wall of Shame’ – summaries of healthcare data breaches – on ...

June 16, 2017

CloudRanger Now Automates Scheduling of RDS Instances

Running RDS instances can be costly, and while that cost is not a problem when RDS instances are being constantly used, for many businesses that ...

June 1, 2017

Pacemaker Cybersecurity Protections Found Lacking

A recent study has found pacemaker cybersecurity protections not only to be lacking, but woefully inadequate. Many of the devices tested were discovered to contain ...

May 31, 2017

Patient Portal Security Flaw Exposed Data of Molina Healthcare Patients

A patient portal security flaw has resulted in the exposure of patient claims information. Claims information had been uploaded to the patient portal of the ...

May 31, 2017

Children’s Mercy Hospital Alerts 5,500 Patients to a Potential PHI Breach

Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City has started notifying more than 5,500 patients that some of their electronic protected health information has been exposed online. ...

May 23, 2017

Healthcare Data Breach Reporting Improves; IT Security Incidents Rise

The monthly Breach Barometer Report from Protenus shows healthcare data breach reporting is improving, data breaches are down, and there was a significant reduction in ...

May 21, 2017

Dept. of Health and Human Services Issues Ransomware Warning

Following the recent WannaCry ransomware attacks, the Department of Health and Human Services has been issuing cybersecurity alerts and warnings to healthcare organizations on the threat ...

May 12, 2017

$2.4 Million HIPAA Fine Following Memorial Hermann Health System HIPAA Breach

A HIPAA compliance breach arising from disclosure on a press release issued by Memorial Hermann Health System (MHHS) in September 2015 has led to the ...

May 11, 2017

Memorial Hermann Health System HIPAA Fine Issued for Improper Disclosure of PHI

An unauthorized disclosure of a patient’s name has resulted in a Memorial Hermann Health System HIPAA compliance fine. The U.S. Department of Health and Human ...

May 10, 2017

New Mexico HIPAA Violation Lawsuit Heads to NM Supreme Court

A New Mexico HIPAA violation lawsuit filed by the victim of a sexual assault whose identity was improperly disclosed has been referred to the Supreme ...

May 9, 2017

True Health Diagnostics Website Flaw Exposes Patient Records

The health reports of patients of the True Health Group have been exposed online and were viewable by other patients for months – most likely ...

May 9, 2017

Motion Filed to Dismiss ‘Baseless’ MDLive HIPAA Lawsuit

A motion has been submitted to dismiss a MDLive HIPAA lawsuit that was filed b y a plaintiff who alleges the firm improperly disclosed protected ...

April 27, 2017

Alleged Patient Privacy Violations Could Lead to Class Action Lawsuit for MDLive

Claims that telemedicine company MDLive violated the privacy of patients by disclosing sensitive medical information to a third party without informing or obtaining official consent ...

April 23, 2017

Supreme Court Ruling: Donor Network Must Disclose Patient Details

A New York Supreme Court Judge has recently ruled that patient details recorded by the New York Organ Donor Network must be handed over to a plaintiff ...

April 21, 2017

HIPAA Rules on Business Associate Agreements

This week, the HHS’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) sent a warning to covered entities about the need to ensure HIPAA compliance rules on business ...

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