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Verizon 2014 Data Breach Investigation Report: Key findings on insider misuse and human error
Verizon’s 2014 Data Breach Investigations Report categorized 63,000 security incidents from 95 countries into 9 categories of causes. For the healthcare organizations...
Mitigating Heartbleed’s lingering effects on networked medical devices
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...
HHS Releases Annual Report of Breaches of Protected Health Information to Congress: Part 2
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...
HHS Releases Annual Report of Breaches of Protected Health Information to Congress: Part 1
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...
Jocelyn Samuels Joins OCR to Oversee Civil Rights, Privacy
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...
Major breaches in Healthcare pass 1,000 milestone mark in June
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...
Former radiologist at NRAD Medical Associates takes 97,000 patient records
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...
Customizable Digital Notices of Privacy Practices Now Available for HIPAA Covered Entities
Webinar on June 26 will explain how your organization can install and use these model notices. HHS Office for Civil Rights and the Office of the National Coordinator...
Parkview Health pays $800,000 in HIPAA Privacy violations settlement
Parkview Health System, Inc. (Parkview Health) has agreed to settle potential violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA)...
Sloppy HIPAA implementation at Rady Children’s Hospital exposes 20,000 patient records
An employee at Rady Children's Hospital in San Diego inadvertently emailed a spreadsheet containing the protected health information of more than 14,000 patients to a...
New HIPAA Privacy & Security Policies for Ohio DD Boards Available
Eagle Consulting Partners has released the 2014 edition of its Confidentiality and Computer Security Policies specifically crafted for Ohio DD Boards. In addition to...
Preparing for the New OCR Audits
The HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has shared information about Phase 2 of its HIPAA Audit Program – including the timing, focus and approach of these audits. ...
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