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Article: Doctors are failing to protect your privacy as a patient
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. I’m not a celebrity, and …
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OCR’s Guidance to HIPAA & Cloud Computing
We have previously posted about HHS/OCR’s Guidance on HIPAA & Cloud Computing. The guidance is presented in question and answer form. To see the full guidance, you can go to the OCR page. Below are the 11 questions with partial answers to keep this brief but provide a good overview: Questions 1. May a …
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HIPAA Gets a Little Cloudy
Pun intended. We all use cloud computing resources every day. All you have to do is go on the Internet, and chances are the website you are accessing uses cloud services. Our website, www.hipaasecurenow.com, uses the Amazon cloud. There are many definitions of cloud services, but at a high level it is the use of …
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Hospital fined $400,000 for obsolete Business Associate Agreements
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 business associate agreement with Care New England Health System effective March 15, 2005, …
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Dropbox Data Breach and Phishing Scams
Dropbox, the popular file sharing service, has experienced a data breach that could affect up to 60 million users. Dropbox is urging their users to change their passwords immediately. In addition, we are seeing an increase in Dropbox related phishing emails. In this security tip video, we show you real examples of Dropbox related phishing …
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Athens Orthopedic won’t pay for credit monitoring in data breach
Data breaches are happening on a frequent basis. You can’t read the news or watch TV without hearing about another data breach. While a company may give out some details of a data breach, the financial details of what the data breach will cost a company usually are not disclosed. This is especially true with …
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Healthcare software bugs have big consequences
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 would have bugs as well. EHRs are complex software programs and are …
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HHS Office for Civil Rights releases ransomware guidance
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 hospitals have been ransomware victims and countless other medical practices have fallen victim as well. There …
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Phase 2 HIPAA Audits – You Can Get Selected
Back in March, we reported that OCR had announced its Phase 2 Audit Program. When we last heard from OCR about Phase 2 HIPAA Audits, we saw that emails were being sent to Covered Entities and Business Associates. The purpose of the emails was to verify and expand the OCR HIPAA audit pool. We wrote …
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Don’t Let HIPAA Audits, Ransomware Sink Your Practice
HIPAA Secure Now! President and CEO writes an article for Physicians Practice called: Don’t Let HIPAA Audits, Ransomware Sink Your Practice At the same time medical practices are faced with the increased likelihood of a HIPAA audit, hackers hover around waiting to steal patients’ personal data and/or hold it hostage through ransomware scams. These practices …
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