by Gary Pritts | Jul 11, 2014 | HIPAA
Many healthcare organizations remain unaware that the Heartbleed bug can affect more than just websites and web servers. The bug, discovered separately by Neel Mehta and his team from Google Security in late March and later by Finnish security firm Codenomicon in... Read More
by Gary Pritts | Jul 3, 2014 | HIPAA
HHS Report of Breaches, 2011-2012, Part #2 The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently submitted their Annual Report to Congress on Breaches of Unsecured Protected Health Information (PHI), for the calendar years 2011-2012. We blogged previously... Read More
by Gary Pritts | Jul 2, 2014 | HIPAA
HHS Report of Breaches, 2011-2012, Part #1 The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) submitted their Annual Report to Congress on Breaches of Unsecured Protected Health Information (PHI), for the calendar years 2011-2012. Theft and loss of computing... Read More
by Gary Pritts | Jul 1, 2014 | HIPAA
Recently confirmed Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell has named Jocelyn Samuels as director of the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR). In this role, her duties also include enforcement of the HIPAA privacy, security and breach notification... Read More
by Gary Pritts | Jun 30, 2014 | HIPAA
One in ten individuals living in the United States have had their medical records exposed through known and reported major data breaches by healthcare providers, payers and their business associates. By law, the Secretary of Health and Human Services posts details of... Read More
by Gary Pritts | Jun 27, 2014 | HIPAA
On April 24, Nassau Radiologic Group Medical Associates (NRAD) in Long Island, New York discovered that a radiologist employed by the organization had accessed the billing systems without authorization and acquired the protected health information of almost 100,000... Read More