by Patrick Kennedy | Dec 30, 2015 | Cybersecurity
The Allina Health System Minneapolis Isles clinic has notified around 6,000 patients of a breach of their Protected Health Information (PHI). The clinic, located at 2800 Hennepin Avenue, found instances of improper PHI disposal had occurred after documents including...
by Patrick Kennedy | Dec 24, 2015 | HIPAA News
The Office for Civil Rights recently release its first financial penalty to an organization that experienced a data violation after its staff responded to a phishing campaign. The case lead to The University of Washington Medicine agreeing to a $750,000 fine to settle...
by Patrick Kennedy | Dec 21, 2015 | HIPAA News
New cybersecurity measures specifically for the healthcare industry have been added to the Omnibus bill signed into law by Congress late last week. The aim of their inclusion is to help healthcare organizations tackle the growing danger of cyberattacks, and supply...
by Patrick Kennedy | Dec 20, 2015 | HIPAA News
TigerText, the largest supplier of secure text messaging solutions, has revealed the its latest initiative, TigerText Anywhere: A HIPAA compliant secure texting app for desktop computing. TigerText’s HIPAA compliant text message platform has already been a great...
by Patrick Kennedy | Dec 16, 2015 | HIPAA News
The Department of Health & Human Services Office of Inspector General has recently published the results of information system reviews conducted on three Californian Medicaid managed-care organizations (MCOs), revealinf numerous, significant security...
by Patrick Kennedy | Dec 16, 2015 | HIPAA News
Day Pitney LLP has launch of a new HIPAA Self-Assessment Tool just before of the second round of Dept. Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights HIPAA-compliance audits. The law firm, with approximately 300 attorneys in it its Connecticut, New Jersey, New...
by Patrick Kennedy | Dec 15, 2015 | HIPAA News
University of Washington Medicine has agreed to settle a HIPAA fine of $750,000, for potential HIPAA violations with the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights, arising from a 90,000-record data breach experienced in 2013. There has been an...
by Patrick Kennedy | Dec 10, 2015 | HIPAA News
An HIPAA fine of $15,000 has been issued by the attorney general to University of Rochester Medical Center for a breach of patient privacy that happened in March, 2015. It is not only the Office for Civil Rights that issues financial penalties for violations of HIPAA...
by Patrick Kennedy | Dec 2, 2015 | HIPAA News
The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights has agreed a HIPAA violation fine of $3.5 million with Puerto Rico Blue Cross Blue Shield licensee Triple S Management Corporation. This is the second HIPAA violation fine to be revealed in the space...
