by Gary Pritts | Jul 27, 2014 | HIPAA
Incidents of cyber-espionage have shown consistent, significant growth and display a wider variety of threat actions than any other pattern discovered in Verizon’s recent 2014 Data Breach Investigations Report, which analyzed of over 63,000 confirmed security... Read More
by Gary Pritts | Jul 21, 2014 | HIPAA
The U.S. Department of Justice announced indictments for a criminal ring involving individuals working at multiple facilities in Alabama. Other individuals in the fraud ring were former employees of a hospital located on Ft. Benning Army base. The ring allegedly used... Read More
by Gary Pritts | Jul 17, 2014 | HIPAA
Verizon’s 2014 Data Breach Investigations Report categorized 63,000 security incidents from 95 countries into 9 categories of causes. For the healthcare organizations surveyed, just 3 of those categories accounted for 73% of the security incidents experience—Theft and... Read More
by Gary Pritts | Jun 16, 2014 | HIPAA
As more and more workers purchase and become dependent upon mobile devices, the IT landscape in organizations has dramatically changed. As organizations evolve and develop new “Bring-Your-Own-Device” (BYOD) policies and procedures, they are discovering that many... Read More
by Gary Pritts | Jun 9, 2014 | HIPAA
HHS’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG) released their annual report for the Fiscal Year 2013, which highlights statistical achievements from the Medicaid Fraud Control Unit investigations and prosecutions nationwide. Medicaid Fraud Control Units (MFCU)... Read More