Mark Wilson
Latest Oregon Infringement Notification Law Becomes Effective
Companies doing business in the state of Oregon should now abide by the latest data infringement law that became effective on January 1, 2016. If a data infringement is suffered that reveals the personal information of over 250 state residents, … Read more
IU Health Arnett Security Infringement Affects 29K Patients
Arnett Hospital of Indiana University Health has notified 29,324 patients concerning the possible revelation of their Protected Health Information (PHI) following an unencrypted flash drive vanished from its emergency division. The flash drive was found to be lost on November … Read more
Infringement of Washington Town Health Care District Information
Roughly 3 months after suffering an infringement of personal information, Washington Town Health Care District has tendered an infringement notification to the California Attorney General’s Office describing an infringement of personal information of Californians. The information infringement was found out … Read more
Cottage Health System Security Inspection Exposes 11K-Record Data Break
On Tuesday Cottage Health System informed its 11,000 sick persons to instruct them that a few of their PHIs were revealed as a consequence of a server occurrence that happened in October 2015. For two weeks, patients had their names … Read more
Connecticut OIG Makes $90K Pact with Hartford Hospital and BA Over 2012 Laptop Theft
Hartford Hospital as well as one of its BAs, EMC Corporation (EMC), have contracted to a settlement with the Connecticut OIG on the 2012 thievery of a laptop having the unencrypted files of 8,883 Connecticut inhabitants. Hartford Hospital and EMC have contracted … Read more
ONC Publicizes Final 10-Year Interoperability Program
On Tuesday, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT announced the long-anticipated final 10-Year Interoperability Program. After the announcement of the draft form of the program in January 2015, the Office of the National Coordinator wanted remarks from … Read more
Car Theft Leads to Revelation of PHI of 2900 People
Insurance Data Services (IDS), a Wyoming-based medicinal invoicing firm, has begun to send break notice letters to patients of Claystone Clinical Associates, one of its HIPAA-covered customers, to notify them of the possible revelation of some of their Protected Health … Read more
Urology Associates Notifies 6500-Record Documents Break
Offsite storing of paper medical files might be convenient if facility room is restricted; but as Kailspell-based healthcare supplier, Urology Associates lately found the decision to store files offsite might prove to be costly. The firm had taken help of … Read more
Healthcare Software Security Evaluated by Veracode
The cloud presents healthcare suppliers the chance to simplify the provision and administration of medical facilities. However, healthcare suppliers trying to use the ability of the cloud might possibly be putting Protected Health Information (PHI) at peril. HIPAA needs covered … Read more
Crown Point Medical Tests Uncovers HIPAA Breach
A former company belonging to Crown Point Medical Tests has breached the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) when it did not securely throw away files having the Protected Health Information (PHI) of more than 166 people. The victims … Read more
Hacking Peaks List of 2015 Data Break Reasons
A study of break details for the duration of the initial 5 months of the year demonstrates that the main reason of 2015 HIPAA breaks is still hacking, which keep on to reveal patient health files in the millions. The … Read more
Symantec Study Confirms Data Breaks Rose 23% in 2014
It’s April, which indicates the announcement of the Symantec Yearly Internet Security Statement. Every year the security software business issues a report collected from the files that it accumulated throughout the course of the previous year. The statement – which can … Read more
Existing Risk of Scam from 2012 Philadelphia Ambulance HIPAA Break
This week the Philadelphia Fire Department informed a data break involving 750 people who had utilized the ambulance facility in 2012. Three years before a worker of Intermedix, the company accustomed to managing the Fire Department’s data requirements, had been … Read more
Evansville Medical Center Hack Reveals HIPAA Files of 4,400
Hackers have accessed the E-mail accounts of a lot of workers of the St. Mary’s Medical Center in Evansville, Indiana, leading in the PHI of roughly 4,400 patients potentially being revealed. Randy Capehart, a spokesperson for St. Mary’s Medical Center, … Read more
Anthem Data Break Projected to Cost Over $100 Million
A HIPAA break carries a massive fiscal fine and one the level of which lately impacted Anthem Inc., is thought to cause costs of several tens of millions of dollars. Anthem has an insurance plan from the American International Group … Read more
Indiana Attorney General Announces $12,000 HIPAA Penalty for Discarded PHI
The Indiana Attorney General’s Office has announced its first penalty for Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act violations pursuant to part 13410(e) of the HITECH Act. The penalty of $12,000 was imposed on ex Kokomo dentist, Joseph Beck, for unlawfully … Read more
Business Associates Constitute 40 Percent of HIPAA Breaks
In the 1st quarter of 2013, 40 percent of all HIPAA breaks involving the revelation of PHI that affected over 500 people were the consequence of the acts of BAs of HIPAA–protected entities. The problem seems to be increasing because … Read more
Highmark Branch Visionworks Struck by 75K HIPAA Break
Highmark Inc., the Pennsylvania-based health Insurance business, has declared today that Visionworks, one of its branches, has misplaced a computer server having the medical files of roughly 75,000 patients. The medicinal information saved on the server contained particulars of patients’ … Read more
Data Secrecy Break to Cost Tenet Healthcare up to $32.5 Million
Tenet Healthcare is among the top suppliers of healthcare in the United States of America with the Texas-based business managing healthcare facilities throughout the country. For the previous 17 years, the business has been involved in a class action litigation … Read more
Aventura Hospice Suffers Third HIPAA Violation Revealing 82,601 Files
Aventura Hospital and Medical Center has found that the HIPAA infringements it suffered throughout the past 2 years were merely the tip of the iceberg. It has now declared a 3rd security break which has affected as many as 82,601 … Read more
St. Vincent Breast Center Violates HIPAA with 63K-Patient Mailing
The St. Vincent Breast Center, an Indianapolis-based health care provider of analytical services for ladies, has informed that a clerical mistake has led to 63,325 patients getting a mailing having wrong information, containing the names, addresses as well as appointment … Read more
Community Health Center Probed for 130K-Patient HIPAA Violation
A past IT Director of Community Health Center, Connecticut has charged that the healthcare provider did not tackle many security weaknesses and believes his employment was ended as a consequence of highlighting those problems to the higher management. Additionally, when … Read more
Boston Business Associate Sacked Over 15K HIPAA Violation
MDF Transcription Services, a Business Partner of Boston Medical Center, has been sacked after a HIPAA breach that revealed the secret data of roughly 15,000 people when their information was publicized on an unsafe transcription website. The HIPAA breach wasn’t … Read more
Onsite Health Diagnostics Hack Shows 60K-Patient Files
Hackers have penetrated a decommissioned net server at healthcare Business Partner, Onsite Health Diagnostics (OHD), and got access to patient files for a period of 3 months before the incursion was identified. OHD is a Dallas-based subcontractor for offering medical … Read more
HIPAA Violations Cost Healthcare Industry $5.6 Billion a Year
A latest statement from the Ponemon Institute has emphasized the gravity of the danger from cyber-attacks and must serve as a notice to healthcare providers that they should improve data safety. The cost to the industry is substantial. Data violations are projected … Read more
Patents Entitlements to Medical Test Data Upgraded under HIPAA
Access to private healthcare information enables patients to take care of their health and work together with their care providers. Getting access to info has now become easier after the issuing of the final law modifying the Clinical Laboratory Improvement … Read more
AHMC Healthcare Omnibus Law Breach Causes 729K HIPAA Violations
The HIPAA Omnibus Law was introduced to make better standards of data safety in the healthcare business and under the new Law, businesses are needed to apply many additional processes to defend the health files of patients. While a number … Read more
How the HIPAA Comprehensive Final Law Applies to E-mail Contact with Patients
The Comprehensive Final Law was created at the beginning of the year and covered companies – which now contains business partners as well as their subcontractors – now require to update policies and procedures to abide by the new rules … Read more
Huge HIPAA Data Breach Reveals 4M Patient Files
One of the nation’s leading healthcare providers, Advocate Health Care, has declared that it has suffered a main HIPAA security violation after 4 unencrypted laptops were thieved from the Advocate Medical Group administrative buildings in Illinois on July 15. The … Read more
Wellpoint Approves $1.7 Million Payment for HIPAA Breaches
Wellpoint is among the leading providers of Affiliated Health Policies, with nearly 36 million policy holders throughout the United States. Fraction of its databank of policy holders was accessible to illegal persons between October 23, 2009, and March 7, 2010. … Read more
Idaho State University Instructed to Pay $400K Settlement for HIPAA Violation
Disobeying HIPAA rules can incur severe fines, as found by Idaho State University this month. The organization has lately been compelled to settle down with the Division of Health and Human Services’ Office of Civil Rights for suspected breaches of … Read more
Hospital X-Ray Racket Provides Burglars with PHI of 17K Patients
Once the Raleigh Orthopedic Clinic decided for its X-ray films to be updated as well as shifted to digital media, the healthcare company naturally required external help. A 3rd party dealer was found that could provide the assistance and the … Read more
HIPAA Violation at Froedtert Health Reveals 43,000 Patient Documents
Milwaukee centered healthcare provider, Froedtert Health, has declared it has experienced a data violation that may possibly have impacted as many as 43,000 patients as a consequence of a computer virus that had contaminated an employee’s Computer. Froedtert Health runs … Read more
441-Patient HIPAA Infringement Leads to 50K Fine
According to Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) rules, healthcare companies are needed to inform data infringements involving over 500 people to the Office of Civil Rights and fiscal fines apply for HIPAA breaches; nevertheless, security violations involving lesser … Read more
Texas Lady Pleads Guilty to HIPAA Breaches
U.S. Lawyer John M. Bales has declared that Joneshia Cranford, a 33-year old inhabitant of Lufkin in the Eastern Region of Texas, has pleaded guilty to breaches of the Health Information Portability and Accountability Law of 1996. Cranford was accused … Read more
Alaska DHSS Arrives at $1.7M Agreement with OCR for HIPAA Safety Rule Breaches
The thievery of a moveable hard drive from a worker of the Alaska Department of Health and Social Services (DHSS) possibly revealed the ePHI of about 2,000 persons. After an inquiry by the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR), an … Read more
Online Patient Calendars Bring about $100K HIPAA Violation
Prior to displaying Safeguarded Health Info on any website, it’s necessary that the method is evaluated for safety dangers. If a website is maintained or owned by a 3rd party or a cloud service is offered, an authorized business associate … Read more
Blue Cross Blue Shield to Reimburse HHS $1.5M for HIPAA Infringement
The Office for Civil Rights has accomplished its first implementation action developing from the HITECH Infringement Notice Rule and has penalized Blue Cross Blue Shield of Tennessee (BCBST) for breaching the Security and Privacy Regulations of the Health Insurance Portability … Read more
Sutter Health Charged for 4.24M HIPAA Mega Infringement
Two class action litigations have now been registered versus the Sutter Health hospital system in Northern California following a theft at its administrative workplaces in Sacramento potentially revealed the Safeguarded Health Info of 4.24 million patients. Throughout the weekend of … Read more
Negligence in Business Associate Security Results in 20K Patient HIPAA Infringement
As per a New York Times story circulated this week, the health reports of 20,000 patients of Stanford University Hospital in Palo Alto, Calif., have been announced online and available to the public for nearly a year after a mistake was made … Read more
UCLA Hospitals Receives $865K HIPAA Penalty for Lacking to Safeguard Superstar Medical Reports
The Division of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights has penalized the UCLA Health System $865,500 for HIPAA breaches triggered by letting the medical reports of 2 superstar patients retrieved by non-authorized people. The 2 patients affected by … Read more
Health Net Penalized 55K for Late HIPAA Infringement Notice
Health Net, Connecticut-based insurance firm is to pay a penalty of $55,000 to the Office of Vermont Attorney General for HIPAA disobedience and failing to safeguard the information of the state’s policyholders after a HIPAA data infringement that revealed the … Read more
