Jun 27, 2016 | Breach, Business Associate, HSN, Security Training
A recent article over at Becker’s Spine Review, discusses some of the “low hanging fruit of HIPAA compliance”. They give 8 best practices for being HIPAA compliant. For the article they interviewed David Holtzman, JD, CIPP, vice president of...
Jun 20, 2016 | Breach, HIPAA Insurance, HSN, ransomware, Risk Assessment
Tune in to Fox Business Network as sponsored programming and Bloomberg International on Sunday, June 26, 2016. See market-by-market listings below. Los Angeles, CA – June 23, 2016 — Secure Now! President/CEO Art Gross will soon appear on the award-winning,...
Jun 15, 2016 | Breach, HIPAA Violations, HSN, Security Training
By now we are all aware of the horrible event that took place in Orlando over the weekend. Mass casualties caused local hospitals and ERs to respond heroically. One of the tasks required during these operations was the necessity to communicate patient status with...
May 1, 2016 | Breach, HIPAA Violations, HSN, ransomware
Well that didn’t take long. In a recent article I made the case that newer variations of ransomware could result in a reportable HIPAA breach. I argued that if ransomware not only encrypted the victim’s files but also copied the files off of a...
Mar 14, 2016 | Audits & Violations, Breach, HIPAA Fine, HSN
NBC news in New York is reporting that medical records from Mount Sinai Beth Israel Senior Health Center were found un-shredded in a public trash container. The documents were apparently discarded from the Mount Sinai Beth Israel Senior Health Center in Chelsea. NBC 4...
Mar 10, 2016 | Breach, Business Associate, Business Associates, HIPAA Fine, HIPAA Violations, HSN, Phishing, ransomware, Security Training
A married couple — both doctors who shared a medical practice — almost divorced over a HIPAA breach that blindsided them when a patient called to say that her medical records appeared in a Google search and she was filing a lawsuit. The orthopedist of a small practice...
