by Gary Pritts | May 9, 2014 | HIPAA
The recent situation at NY Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center that resulted in the largest-to-date HIPAA settlement of $4.8 Million, highlighted that security leadership wasn’t aware of all of the applications running on their system. Reading... Read More
by Gary Pritts | May 8, 2014 | HIPAA
The largest HIPAA settlement ever, in the amount of $4.8 Million, by two affiliated organizations, NY Presbyterian and Columbia University, sheds light on HHS expectations for HIPAA compliance, at least for a large academic medical center with 24,000 employees. The... Read More
by Gary Pritts | May 6, 2014 | HIPAA
Employee misbehavior using access privileges for the purpose of identity theft has led to yet another data breach. Notice was sent to more than 2,400 patients at UMass Memorial Medical Center (UMMMC) in Worcester, MA regarding potential identify theft. On March 6,... Read More
by Gary Pritts | May 5, 2014 | HIPAA
The Fourth Annual Patient Privacy and Data Security Survey, published in March, revealed new and expanded threats to the security and privacy of patient information in the U.S. healthcare system. The independent survey was completed by the Ponemon Institute and... Read More
by Gary Pritts | May 2, 2014 | HIPAA
Boston Medical Center, a 496-bed academic medical center in Boston, discovered a data breach on March 3 when the records of 15,000 patients were posted online by a vendor. The records, which contained patients’ names, addresses, and medical information, including what... Read More
by Gary Pritts | May 1, 2014 | HIPAA
A data breach at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) originally thought to have compromised the privacy of 332 employees, may actually have over 27,000 victims according to a recent Pittsburgh Tribune-Review report. The alleged breach involved the... Read More
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