by Gary Pritts | May 15, 2014 | HIPAA
On May 2nd, Molina Healthcare alerted 5,261 former members of Molina Healthcare of New Mexico of a data breach that took place around March 18, 2014. A postcard mailing about the Health Insurance Marketplace was sent to these former members that contained their... Read More
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 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