In 2012 Accretive Health Care was banned from doing business in Minnesota for 2 – 6 years for a HIPAA violation. In 2018 New York State suspended a nurse’s...
HIPAA Lawsuits
The following is a guest blog post by Greg Waldstreicher, Founder and CEO of PHIflow. Actions by the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) have clearly demonstrated...
Would you put a $ 10 fence around a $ 100 horse? Does it make sense to put a $ 100 fence around a $ 10 horse? For the right security, you need to know what...
The following is a guest blog post by Robert Lord, Co-founder and CEO of Protenus. The speed at which a hospital can detect a privacy breach could mean the...
A Fort Myers, FL-based cancer care organization is paying a massive price for a health data breach that exposed personal information on 2.2 million patients...
Ideally, your healthcare organization will never see a major data breach. But realistically, given how valuable healthcare data is these days — and the...
In this week in HIPAA Breach rubber-necking, we have the FBI discovering suspicious network activity from third parties at Owensboro Health Muhlenberg...
Ideally, the only reason you would know about the following is due to scribes such as myself — but for the record, the HHS Office for Civil Rights has...
Today I stumbled across an article which I thought readers of this blog would find noteworthy. In the article, Art Gross, president and CEO at HIPAA Secure Now...
HHS has begun investigating a HIPAA breach at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center which ended with a patient’s STD status being posted on...