Slack is a useful tool that can make it much easier to communicate and collaborate, but is Slack HIPAA compliant? Would it be against HIPAA regulations for healthcare entities to send protected health information (PHI) via Slack? Is Slack HIPAA Compliant? The question...
Sutter Health is alerting a number of clients that some of their protected health information may have been accessed in a phishing attack on one of its business associates – the Salem and Green legal firm. On approximately October 11, 2017, a phishing email was opened...
Over 750,000 businesses are now using Zoom for online video and web conferencing. However, before implementing use of the service it is vital to consider if it adheres to HIPAA Rules for appropriate use by healthcare groups in relation to sharing PHI. A cloud-based...
As a document management and storage service for businesses, eFileCabinet provide on-site and cloud storage. However, is the service appropriate for the healthcare sector? Does eFileCabinet adhere with HIPAA rules or will using it lead to HIPAA breaches? Document...
The American Journal of Managed Care has released a report detailing hospital data breaches experienced in the United States. The focus of the study was to discover common characteristics of hospital data breaches, what the biggest issue areas are, the main causes of...
A recent MediaPro report released there is still an absence of readiness to deal with common cyberattacks and privacy and security dangers are still not fully comprehended by healthcare staff. In MediaPro’s 2017 State of Privacy and Security Awareness Report, the firm...
Aetna has begun a legal action to claim compensation from an administrative support firm in relation to a July 2017 data violation in which details of HIV medications visible through transparent plastic windows of envelopes in a mail shot. Letters inserted in some of...
A web-based document management and storage system, SharePoint is one of the most popular leading collaborative services available, used by 78% of Fortune 500 firms. The service relies on Microsoft’s OpenXML document standard and therefore integrates seamlessly with...
Yammer is a freemium enterprise social networking platform used for private communication and collaboration within organizations since 2008. After a bedding in period Microsoft purchased the company in 2012. It has grown in popularity since then to the extent that it...
A web and video conferencing and collaboration platform, WebEx allows businesses connect with remote workers and partners as if they are working on site. Using utilities like WebEx, healthcare groups can interact quickly and easily with the workforce, no matter where...
A privacy breach has been experienced by the Puerto Rico Health Plan Triple-S Advantage. The breach, which affected 36,000 plan members, was due to a mailing mistake which saw sensitive information of plan subscribers disclosed to incorrect people. The released...
The protected health information (PHI) of 925 patients of Coastal Cape Fear Eye Associates has been compromised in a ransomware attack. North Carolina’s Coastal Cape Fear Eye Associates, P.A., found that its systems had been breached on December 5 2017. Upon noticing...
Even when HIPAA-compliant businesses close down the obligation to abide by HIPAA Rules does not cease to exist. This was highlighted recently when FileFax, a Northbrook, IL-based firm that offers medical record storage, maintenance, and delivery services for HIPAA...
Ron’s Pharmacy Services , based in San Diego, has reported that an email account that held limited protected health information has been accessed by an unknown person. Suspicious activity was noticed on a staff member’s email account on October 3, 2017 leading to an...
A hacker has potentially gained access to the medical records of up to 24,000 patients of Decatur County General Hospital in Tennessee. Teh Helath centre has discovered malware has been placed on a server storing its internal electronic medical record system. A...
The protected health information of approximately 2,600 patients of Partners HealthCare System has been sent notifications that their PHI may have been compromised is a HIPAA breach. Even though health care organizations covered by HIPAA are given 60 days following...
Western Washington Medical experienced a PHI breach when the protected health information of 842 patients of Group was exposed in November 2017 after files including sensitive health information were disposed, in error, with normal rubbish. On November 13, 2017, the...
Partners HealthCare System is making contact with around 2,600 patients to advise them that, potentially, some of their protected health information (PHI) may have been accessed. Even though HIPAA covered bodies have up to 60 days after the identification of a breach...
Florida-based CarePlus Health Plans has experienced a PHI breach incident which has seen certain plan members’ protected health information disclosed, in error, to other plan subscribers. A mailing including ‘Explanation of benefits statements (EOB)’ was...
Pharmacy benefit manager CVS Pharmacy is suing mail service provider Press America, Inc in relation to over an accidental disclosure of 41 peoples’ protected health information. CVS Pharmacy is under contract to provide a mail-order based pharmacy service for a...
Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey has revealed the introduction launch of a new Internet-based data breach reporting application. The focus is to allow for breached organizations to file breach notifications to the Attorney General’s office as simply as...
A business associate of Forrest Health’s Forrest General Hospital, HORNE LLP is alerting a number of hospital patients that some of their PHI (PHI) has potentially been stolen by a third party after they accessed the email account of one of its staff members. HORNE,...
660 patients of Eastern Maine Medical Center are being notified that some of their protected health information may have been been exposed after a ortable hard drive, that stored sensitive information, has gone missing from its State Street facility, in Bangor, ME....
A reminder was recently issued by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) that eligible hospitals and Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs) using the Electronic Health Record Incentive Schemes must employ the QualityNet Secure Portal (QNet) to submit...
