by Gary Pritts | Sep 22, 2014 | General News, HIPAA
Identifying routine disclosures is key to safeguarding patient PHI During what Jersey City Medical Center called “a part of routine hospital operations,” an employee sent a UPS package containing to a company engaged by the New Jersey State Medicaid program. The... Read More
by Gary Pritts | Sep 11, 2014 | General News, HIPAA
Recently, 6,500 patients of Tri-City Medical Center in Oceanside, California were notified of a breach of their protected health information. A former employee (on his last day of employment in August) removed the medical records of the patients and brought them to... Read More
by Gary Pritts | Aug 23, 2014 | General News, HIPAA
Community Health Systems announced on Monday that outside hackers gained access to their network and stole the non-medical, personal information of 4.5 million patients. The data included names, addresses, birth dates, telephone numbers and Social Security numbers—all... Read More
by Gary Pritts | Aug 21, 2014 | General News, HIPAA
Since the initial report of the Community Health Solutions breach, in which attackers hacked into the CHS network to gain personal data of a whopping 4.5 million patients, details of the hack are emerging. According to security firm TrustedSec, owned by David Kennedy,... Read More
by Gary Pritts | Jul 23, 2014 | HIPAA
AccessHealthCT, the health insurance exchange in Connecticut, announced that an employee of a contractor left a backpack containing the protected health information of 400 of the state’s residents on the street. The information left behind was written on a notepad and... Read More