OCR Issues 11 Further Financial Penalties To Noncompliant Entities
The Department of Health and Human Service’ Office for Civil Rights has recently announced a further 11 financial penalties to HIPAA-regulated entities who have failed…
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Meta Faces Lawsuit For Unlawful Collection Of Patient Data
Report Finds Top US Hospitals Sharing Patient Information To Facebook
Amazon Acquires One Medical For $3.9 Billion
Study Shows The Importance Of Password Strength
Methodist Hospitals Data Breach Results In $425,000 Settlement
Methodist Hospitals Data Breach Results In $425,000 Settlement
Tenet Healthcare Face $100M Lawsuit for Major Breach
HSS OIG Study Shows 40% of Patients Used Telehealth During Pandemic
GAO Calls for HHS HIPAA Breach Reporting Feedback Mechanism
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has issued a report suggesting that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) introduces a mechanism for feedback to…
Bipartisan Comprehensive Data Privacy Bill Proposed
A draft bipartisan bill has been introduced to replace current data privacy laws in different U.S.states. Introduced to the house of representatives in early June,…
Google Accused of Unauthorized Use to NHS Medical Records in Lawsuit
A new class-action lawsuit has been filed against Google in the Uk as a result of a 2016 data scandal, which involved the discovery of…
AMA Launch Program Aimed at Healthcare for Marginalized Patients
The American Medical Association, in collaboration with Boston-based Brogham and Women’s Hospital and the Joint Commision, has introduced a new learning network aimed to assist…
Top Hospitals Breaching HIPAA By Sending PHI Via Facebook
According to a recent analysis of hospital websites, a third of the top 100 hospitals in the US are sharing patient information to Facebook using…
FDA Draft Guidelines On Medical Device CyberSecurity Issued
The FDA has published a draft guidance regarding medical device cybersecurity. With the guidance entitled “‘Cybersecurity in Medical Devices: Quality System Considerations and Content of…
Phishing Attack at Atrium Exposes PHI
Atrium Health, a hospital network located in Charlotte, North Carolina, has notified patients that an unauthorized third party had accessed the PHI they maintain. Atrium…
MGA HIPAA Breach Triggers Multiple Lawsuits
Multiple lawsuits will take place in the U.S. District Court of Western Washington regarding a significant breach of PHI. At least 4 class-action lawsuits have…
Study Finds Women’s Health Applications Are Not Secure
The global market for mobile applications is seeing a continuous rise in the phenomena known as women’s mobile health (mHealth). The mHealth applications provide services…
Study Finds Telehealth Usage Rates in Line with In Person Treatment Rates
In the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. federal government implemented temporary Medicare policy changes as part of the public health emergency. Coverage for…
Major Study Validates Telehealth for Chronic Conditions
The COVID-19 pandemic generated a variety of notable changes within the U.S healthcare industry. In the beginning, a significant portion of care was postponed due…
Meta Sued For Scraping PHI from Hospital Websites
A class-action lawsuit has been filed against Meta for allegedly scraping PHI from hospital and medical provider websites. The case was filed in the Northern…
PHI Exposed Because of Hacking Incidents in 3 HIPAA-Regulated Entities
PHI of Nearly 69,000 Individuals Exposed in Comstar Hacking Incident Comstar located in Rowley, MA offers ambulance billing, collection, ePCR Hosting, and patient/client services. It…
Shields Health Care Group Confronted With Class Action Lawsuit Due to 2 Million-Record Data Breach
Shields Health Care Group is confronted with a class-action lawsuit because of the 2 million-record data breach it recently reported. This is the largest healthcare…
2 Million Patients Affected by Shields Health Care Group Cyberattack
The protected health information (PHI) of approximately 2 million persons was possibly exposed in a cyberattack on Shields Health Care Group. Shields Health Care Group…
Hackers Could Take Advantage of Zero Day Microsoft Office Vulnerability with Macros Disabled
Microsoft has released a security alert and has given a solution to stop a zero-day vulnerability identified in the Microsoft Windows Support Diagnostic Tool (MSDT)…
Study Finds Lower Income Groups Less Likely to Benefit from Post Pandemic Telehealth
A study published by JMIR found that populations with lower income are less likely to benefit from telehealth after the COVID-19 pandemic. In light of…
Artificial Intelligence Can Determine Race Using Medical Imaging
A recent study published in The Lancet Digital Health has found that artificial intelligence has the ability to determine the race of a patient using…
More than 850,000 Persons Impacted by Cyberattack on Partnership Health Plan of California
In March 2022, Partnership HealthPlan of California (PHC) stated that third-party forensic experts were involved to help recover the service of its IT solutions subsequent…
Cyberattacks Reported by Schneck Medical Center, and NuLife Med
The medical equipment firm NuLife Med LLC located in Manchester, NH, has lately reported that it suffered a cyberattack in March 2022. It detected suspicious…
Email Security Cases Announced by HealthPlex and Optima Dermatology
Healthplex Inc., one of the biggest dental insurance companies based in New York, has reported the compromise of an employee’s email account because of a…
HSCC Published Operational Continuity-Cyber Incident Checklist
An Operational Continuity-Cyber Incident (OCCI) checklist published by the Health Sector Coordinating Council’s (HSCC) Cybersecurity Working Group (CWG) works as a versatile template for dealing…
HHS Advises HPH Sector Regarding Insider Threats in Medical Care
Numerous healthcare data breaches are happening, yet not all privacy and security problems originate from beyond the company. The Department of Health and Human Services’…
Insider Data Breaches at Deaconess Health System and Blue Earth County
Deaconess Health System based in Indiana and Blue Earth County based in Minnesota have informed individuals who had their sensitive personal data has accessed by…
Rise in Class Action Lawsuits Subsequent to Healthcare Data Incidents
The law firm BakerHostetler has shared its 8th Annual Data Security Incident Response (DSIR) Report, which offers insights according to 1,270 data security incidents managed…
Connecticut Health Insurance Exchange Auditor Finds 44 Unreported Data Breaches
An audit of the Health Insurance Exchange of Connecticut, Access Health CT, by the state auditor showed that Access Health CT encountered 44 data breaches…
Horizon Actuarial Services , Clinic of North Texas and Parkland Community Health Plan Announces Data Breaches
Horizon Actuarial Services, Clinic of North Texas, and Parkland Community Health Plan have just announced breaches of the protected health information (PHI) of patients and…
OCR: HIPAA Security Rule Compliance May Stop and Mitigate Many Cyberattacks
Healthcare hacking incidents are considerably increasing for several years. Hacking/IT incidents went up by 45% from 2019 to 2020. In 2021, 66% of breaches relating…
Healthcare Scores Badly for Executing the Cyber Incident Response
2021 was awful in terms of healthcare data breaches having more than 50 million records exposed and around 900 data breaches documented by databreaches.net. Given…
3 Email Security Breaches Impacted Around 111,000 Patients
Email account breach reports were filed by Montrose Regional Health, Acacia Network, and EPIC Pharmacy Network. Montrose Regional Health The health system Montrose Regional Health…
OCR Director Urges HIPAA-Regulated Entities to Fortify Their Cybersecurity Posture
In the latest blog post, Director Lisa J. Pino of the HHS’ Office for Civil Rights told HIPAA-regulated entities to do something to fortify their…
2021 Had Sharp Increase in Ransomware Data Leaks and Higher Ransom Demands
According to the annual threat report published by CrowdStrike, there were a lot more data leaks right after ransomware attacks in 2021, increasing by 82%…
Joint Alert on Higher Risk of Ransomware Attacks on Critical Infrastructure
Cybersecurity agencies in Australia, the United States, and the United Kingdom, issued a joint security advisory concerning the greater worldwide threat of ransomware attacks and…
PHI of 138K Persons Compromised Due to 3 Email Security Incidents
Hackers have acquired access to email accounts comprising protected health information (PHI) at Volunteers of America Southwest California, iRise Florida Spine and Joint Institute, and…
About the Healthcare Data Breach Reporting Concern
The HIPAA Breach Notification Rule necessitates the issuance of a data breach notification letter to the Secretary of the HHS “without unnecessary delay” and no…
EyeMed Pays $600,000 Penalty to Resolve 2.1 Million-Record Data Breach
New York Attorney General Letitia James reported the first settlement of 2022 involving a healthcare data breach. The vision benefits company in Ohio, Med Vision…
Class Action Lawsuit Filed Against QRS Because of 320,000-Record Data Breach
QRS, a healthcare technology services firm and EHR vendor in Tennessee, is confronted with a class-action lawsuit related to a cyberattack in August 2021 that…
About 30 Healthcare Companies Impacted by CIOX Health Security Breach
The health data management services provider CIOX Health suffered a data breach that has impacted a minimum of 32 healthcare companies. Last July 2021, CIOX…
About 80,000 Patients Affected by Fertility Centers of Illinois Cyberattack
Fertility Centers of Illinois (FCI) has just informed 79,943 existing and former patients regarding unauthorized individuals that may have viewed or obtained some of their…
Patient Records Stolen in a Cyberattack on the Medical Review Institute of America
The Medical Review Institute of America (MRoiA) encountered an alleged ransomware attack in November 2021 that resulted in the theft of sensitive patient data. MRoiA…
New Data Shows Magnitude of Ransomware Attacks on the Healthcare Industry
The CyberPeace Institute has published new information on cyberattacks in the healthcare sector. As per the most current stats, 295 cyberattacks are identified to have…