Some healthcare organizations have violated patient privacy and HIPAA Rules when responding to negative critiques on Yelp and otherreview sites according to a recent ProPublica report. For the report, ProPublica was given with access to […]
The HIPAA Omnibus Rule (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 Omnibus Rule) was drafted in July 2010; however the final release has been put off until this month some of the concerns raised […]
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has just received a joint settlement of $1,975,220 for the potential breaches of HIPAA arising following the theft of a laptop storing […]
The Californian multi-specialty physician’s group, Imperial Valley Family Care Medical Group (IVFCMG), has recently been audited by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) following a potential breach of […]
Less than one month after Boston’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center reached a settlement with the Massachusetts Attorney General for HIPAA violations after a laptop was stolen containing unencrypted PHI, Boston Children’s Hospital has been fined for […]
A security breach that has potentially impacted almost 13,000 patients has been announced by Hand & Upper Extremity Centers. The breach happened at Thousand Oaks, CA-based Hand Rehabilitation Specialists (HRS). While it is unclear when the […]
An review has been completed into a privacy violation at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center’s Bedford Memorial hospital, in a case which photographs and videos of a patient’s genitals were captured by hospital staff […]
Almost 70 patient files containing sensitive personal and medical data have been found in an alley in Denver, CO. The files include details of patients’ medical histories, insurance information, and Social Security numbers – The […]
The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights, earlier in 2017, settled a case with Mount Sinai St. Luke’s Hospital to resolve alleged breaches of HIPAA following a 2014 impermissible disclosure of […]
In June 2014, hackers succeeded in accessing to a database controlled by CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield and the secured health information of 1.1 million of its members. The types of information exposed due to the hack included […]
Aetna is facing a class action lawsuit following a privacy breach that saw the HIV positive status of up to 12,000 individuals disclosed against the patients’ wishes. The individuals names and addresses were visible during […]
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