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August 9, 2016

CMS Takes Steps to Prevent Abuse of Nursing Home Residents on Social Media Sites

Reports of abuse of nursing home residents on social media networks have prompted the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to take steps to ...

August 9, 2016

Qualcomm Chip Vulnerabilities Affect Close to 1 Billion Android Phones

Android smartphones and tablets are at risk of compromise due to four recently discovered Qualcomm chip vulnerabilities, according to security researchers at Check Point. The ...

August 6, 2016

Banner Health Network Cyberattack Affects 3.7 Million Individuals

3.7 million individuals have been affected by a Banner Health Network cyberattack discovered last month. The Banner Health Network cyberattack is the largest healthcare data ...

July 28, 2016

Wireless Keyboard Vulnerabilities Discovered

Researchers at Bastille have discovered wireless keyboard vulnerabilities that can be exploited to inject keystrokes into targeted PCs, but worse still, armed with a $12 ...

July 26, 2016

OIG Assesses HIPAA Standards for EHR Contingency Planning

The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General has conducted a survey to investigate whether HIPAA standards for EHR contingency planning were ...

July 26, 2016

Patients Informed of Athens Orthopedic Clinic Cyberattack

Patients of Athens Orthopedic Clinic are in the process of being notified that their protected health information has been obtained by a hacker. The Athens ...

July 14, 2016

Malicious Actors Are Conducting Targeted Healthcare Industry Attacks

Random ransomware attacks on healthcare organizations are a cause for concern, although the recent spate of targeted healthcare industry attacks are even more worrying. Malicious ...

July 13, 2016

11 Security Bulletins Released by Microsoft

Microsoft has released a swathe of updates addressing vulnerabilities in Windows, Office, the .NET framework, and its Edge and IE Internet browsers. In total 10 ...

July 12, 2016

167 HIPAA Covered Entities Selected for a Compliance Audit

The long awaited second phase of HIPAA compliance audits started earlier this year with the sending of emails to covered entities requesting contact information. From ...

July 12, 2016

13,000 Patients Impacted by Ambulatory Surgery Center Ransomware Attack

The recent Ambulatory Surgery Center ransomware attack has resulted in the protected health information of 13,000 patients being exposed, according to a recent article in ...

July 1, 2016

Hackers Use Conficker to Conduct Hospital IOT Attacks

Hospital IOT attacks are not just theoretical. Hackers are actively targeting medical devices such as MRI machines, CT scanners, and other Internet-connected medical devices. The ...

June 20, 2016

HIPAA Minimum Necessary Standard Discussed at NCVHS Hearing

Melissa Martin, the President of the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) gave a testimony at a recent National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics’ ...

June 3, 2016

Connecticut Podiatry Office EHR Hack Impacts 40,000 Patients

Stamford Podiatry Group P.C. is sending breach notification letters to 40,491 patients to advise them that their protected health information may have been accessed by ...

May 24, 2016

Stronger Ransomware Protection for Hospitals Needed, says CHIME, AEHIS

The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) and the Association for Executives in Healthcare Information Security (AEHIS) have issued a joint statement calling for ...

May 23, 2016

Have You Started Preparing for a HIPAA Compliance Audit?

Have you started preparing for a HIPAA compliance audit? Will you be able to supply compliant documentation to OCR auditors if your organization is selected ...

May 14, 2016

AHA Calls for Changes to Healthcare Data Privacy Rules

The American Hospital Association (AHA) has urged congress to update data privacy rules to align them more closely with HIPAA. At present, the privacy rules ...

May 10, 2016

OCR Warns Hospitals to Prepare for Business Associate Data Breaches

The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has recently issued a warning to HIPAA covered entities saying they should be ...

May 5, 2016

Skeddly Introduces Managed Policies Allowing Permissions to be Set by Role

Skeddly has made enhancements to its cloud automation platform. The new feature allows administrators to set permissions for users based on their role within an ...

May 5, 2016

Threat from Ransomware Prompts FBI to Issue a Warning to Healthcare Organizations

The threat from ransomware has increased considerably over the course of the past few months, and healthcare organizations are in cybercriminals’ cross-hairs. Attacks on healthcare ...

April 26, 2016

OIG Discovers 129 Medicare Healthcare Data Security Gaps

The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General has recently published its annual review of the health IT security programs of Medicare ...

April 19, 2016

Majority of Health IT Security Execs Have Increased Spending on Data Protection

A recent study conducted by data security firm Vormetric indicates 60% of healthcare IT security executives have increased their data protection budgets. New data security ...

April 15, 2016

Healthcare IT Security Focus On Compliance Not Breach Prevention

According to the latest Vormetric data threat report, the main healthcare IT security focus is meeting HIPAA compliance requirements, not preventing data breaches. HIPAA Compliance ...

April 7, 2016

Phase 2 HIPAA Audit Protocol Released

The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights published the new phase 2 HIPAA audit protocol this week. The protocol details the ...

March 30, 2016

MedStar Health Cyberattack Forces Computer Network Shutdown

Ransomware attacks on hospitals have become much more common in 2016; however, the Medstar Health cyberattack could well be the most serious. Early on Monday ...

March 24, 2016

Phase 2 HIPAA Audit Program Begins

The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights has announced that the phase 2 HIPAA audit program has now started. Covered entities ...

March 24, 2016

Ransomware Attacks on Hospitals on The Rise

The recent spate of ransomware attacks on hospitals continues. In the last few days, two more attacks on Southern Californian hospitals have been announced. Ransomware ...

March 21, 2016

Phase 2 HIPAA Compliance Audits Underway, says OCR

Phase 2 of the HIPAA compliance audits is now underway, according to a recent announcement issued by the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office ...

March 17, 2016

North Memorial Healthcare to Pay $1.5 Million HIPAA Fine

North Memorial Healthcare has agreed to pay the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) $1.5 million for failing to obtain ...

March 17, 2016

Business Associate Data Breaches Can Be Expensive: Hospital Pays OCR $1.55 Million

The latest OCR HIPAA settlement illustrates just how expensive business associate data breaches can be if a HIPAA-covered entity has not obtained a signed, compliant ...

March 8, 2016

205,000 Patients of Premier Healthcare Affected by PHI Breach

Bloomington, Indiana-Based Premier Healthcare has recently reported the theft of an unencrypted laptop computer containing the protected health information of 205,748 patients. Patients’ names, dates ...

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