Oct 25, 2016 | Breach, HIPAA Violations, HSN
The title of the Business Insider article ( Doctors are failing to protect your privacy as a patient ) will open a lot of eyes. The article is written from a patient perspective on how her data was breached. Somewhere on the Internet there is a photo of me topless....
Sep 27, 2016 | Breach, Business Associates, HIPAA Fine, HIPAA Violations, HSN
In a clear message to healthcare organizations, The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Civil Rights (OCR), fined Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island (WIH) for not having updated HIPAA Business Associate Agreements. WIH provided OCR with a...
Aug 11, 2016 | Breach, Business Associate, Business Associates, HIPAA Fine, HIPAA Violations, HSN
Almost all software programs have bugs in their code. The bugs may be security holes, problems displaying pages on mobile devices or inaccurately displaying results in reports to name a few. So it should be no shock that electronic health record (EHR) systems...
Jul 13, 2016 | HIPAA Violations, HSN, ransomware
There has been a lot of articles written lately about the threat of ransomware to healthcare organizations. Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center paid a $17,000 ransom to regain access to their systems after they were infected with ransomware. Several other...
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...
