Covenant HealthCare has advised more than 6,000 patients that their electronic medical records were inappropriately accessed by one of its staff members. The improper access was identified during a November 2016 review of EMR access […]
PWC has published the results of a new survey that highlight some fascinating developments in the race for US GDPR preparedness. The vast majority of the respondents to the recent “GDPR preparedness pulse survey” considered […]
The first HIPAA settlement of 2017 has been announced by the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR). This is also the first settlement to date specifically based on an unnecessary […]
MAPFRE Life Assurance Company of Puerto Rico – A subsidiary of MAPFRE S.A., of Spain – has agreed a $2.2 million settlement, with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights, […]
During her campaign to become Republican state senator for Virginia in 2015, Henrico County physician Siobhan Dunnavant, M.D., impermissably used patients’ contact information – classed as protected health information under HIPAA Rules – to garner […]
HIPAA settlements reached record highs in 2016. This is in part due to the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights increasing its enforcement activities in recent years. In total, payments of […]
Over the past two weeks, the number of organizations that have had their MongoDB databases accessed, copied, and deleted has been on the rise. Ethical Hacker Victor Gevers found in late December that many MondoDB […]
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