RyanCoyne
Ryan Coyne is a results-driven leader in the healthcare compliance industry, specializing in regulatory compliance, compliance training, and assisting healthcare organizations and business associates in achieving and maintaining compliance. With a deep knowledge of healthcare regulations and a keen understanding of the challenges faced by the industry, Ryan has developed a reputation as a trusted advisor and advocate for ethical and compliant practices in healthcare. Ryan has successfully advised and guided numerous healthcare organizations, business associates, and healthcare professionals on achieving and maintaining compliance with regulatory training requirements. Ryan's professional focus is using his in-depth expertise and leading a world class team of subject matter experts at ComplianceJunction in regulatory compliance to help organisations navigate the complex landscape of ensuring staff adhere to healthcare regulations. You can connect with Ryan via LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryancoyne/ and follow on Twitter https://twitter.com/ryancoyne
by Ryan Coyne | Jun 22, 2020 | HIPAA Advice
Because HIPAA was enacted a number of years prior to the evolution of social media platforms, there are no provisions specifically addressing social media networks and PHI in the HIPAA text. However, this does not mean HIPAA does not apply to social media networks. In...
by Ryan Coyne | Jun 16, 2020 | CCPA News
Due to an alleged failure to put in place appropriate security measures to safeguard protect personal information, online design marketplace Minted Inc. is facing a class action lawsuit for breaching the California Consumers’ Privacy Act. The proposed class...
by Ryan Coyne | Jun 7, 2020 | HIPAA News
A bipartisan group of Senators have introduced a bill dedicated to securing contact tracing and exposure notification apps that will be implemented to manage the spread of COVID-19. One of three bills introduced, the Exposure Notification Privacy Act is was formulated...
by Ryan Coyne | May 29, 2020 | Cybersecurity
Groups that are hit by a ransomware attack may be tempted to pay the ransom to reduce downtime and save on recovery costs, but a survey conducted by Sophos suggests organizations that pay the ransom actually end up spending a lot more that groups who can rescue files...
by Ryan Coyne | May 25, 2020 | Cyberlaw by Eoin Campbell, GDPR Advice
Implemented on the 25th of May 2018, Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), has now entered the terrible twos. Birthdays are an occasion to take stock, and this anniversary is particularly interesting from an American perspective. For those who need...
by Ryan Coyne | May 20, 2020 | HIPAA Advice
Using a HIPAA compliance guide will put you in a position to ally your group and your business associates to gain a proper understanding of the requirements associated with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). It is vital that all...
by Ryan Coyne | May 6, 2020 | CCPA News, Cybersecurity
Last week a group of four four Republican Senators revealed that they are proposing federal privacy legislation that will establish rules in relation to the collation and use of personal information during the Coronavirus pandemic. The group, which includes Roger...
by Ryan Coyne | May 6, 2020 | CCPA News
The California Privacy Rights Act (“CPRA”), an Act that was drafted to address some of the supposed shortcomings of the recently introduced Californian Consumers’ Privacy Act (CCPA), has moved closer to a reality as advocates have secured 900,000 of the 1...
by Ryan Coyne | May 5, 2020 | Cybersecurity
Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic, many groups have have to quickly set up remote working capabilities for their staff. As a result of this there has been increased potential for cybercriminals to initiate campaigns. Remote workers have been attacked on an even greater...
by Ryan Coyne | May 4, 2020 | Cyberlaw by Eoin Campbell
Fresh Data Breach Heartbreak for Marriott Hotel Group In December 2018, Marriott International disclosed a breach which had impacted some 383 million guest records. Industry specialists at the time viewed the data failure as a key example of the risks inherent in...
by Ryan Coyne | May 4, 2020 | HIPAA News
The National Security Agency has release cybersecurity guidance for teleworkers to help enhance security when staff are working remotely. The guidance has been made available primarily for U.S. government employees and military service members, but it is also...
by Ryan Coyne | Apr 29, 2020 | Cyberlaw by Eoin Campbell
Virgin Media Ltd, which provides television, telephone and internet services throughout the United Kingdom may have to fork out up to £4,500,000,000 (roughly $5.5 billion) after a data security breach in which personal information belonging to its customers was...
by Ryan Coyne | Apr 24, 2020 | HIPAA News
Stockdale Radiology in California has revealed that patient privated data has been compromised due to a ransomware attack that took place on January 17, 2020.An internal review confirmed that the hackers gained access to patients’ first and last names, addresses,...
by Ryan Coyne | Apr 12, 2020 | CCPA News
California Attorney General Xavier Becerra has released a statement, reminding Californians of their rights in relation to their privacy, which further emphasized his office’s commitment to stick to the July 1 2020 enforcement date for the California Consumer...
by Ryan Coyne | Apr 6, 2020 | HIPAA News
It has been announced that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) will be easing the sanctioning of penalties in relation to specific data privacy breaches during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Notice of Enforcement Discretion applies to breaches of the HIPAA...
by Ryan Coyne | Apr 3, 2020 | CCPA News, Cybersecurity
Zoom, a video conferencing software application that has experienced explosive growth due to the social distancing measures introduced globally during the COVID19 crisis, has had a class action lawsuit filed against it in the Northern District of California this week...
by Ryan Coyne | Apr 2, 2020 | CCPA News
Following the declaration of a state of emergency by California Governor Gavin Newsom in a bid to stem the surge of COVID-19, trade associations have issued a plea to have CCPA enforcement suspended until 2021. The pleas was directed towards California Attorney...
by Ryan Coyne | Apr 1, 2020 | CCPA News, Cybersecurity
It is important to remember that, despite the wide-reaching and deep impact the the COVID-19 pandemic, the rights of individuals to have their protection respected are as important and relevant as ever. In recent weeks we have see a relaxing on the policing of HIPAA...
by Ryan Coyne | Apr 1, 2020 | CCPA News, Cybersecurity
The Marriott Hotel Group has revealed that it has suffered its third data breach in just over two years and has impacted the private data of up to 5.2m guests. The hotel group that operates Marriott Hotel, Starwood Hotels released a statement that said uses an...
by Ryan Coyne | Mar 25, 2020 | Cybersecurity
Chief Information Security Officer for the World Health Organization Flavio Aggio has revealed that there has been a massive increase in the amount of cyber-attack registered against his group since the COVID-19 Pandemic began. When questioned in relation to the...
by Ryan Coyne | Mar 18, 2020 | Cyberlaw by Eoin Campbell, GDPR Advice
Privacy Authority to impose $8 Million Penalty Google has announced that it intends to appeal the recent General Data Protection Regulation fine, its second, levied by Sweden’s Data Protection Authority against the internet giant. A fine of 75 million kroner...
by Ryan Coyne | Mar 10, 2020 | Cybersecurity
Hackers, spammers and cybercriminals are always leveraging current events to try and target susceptible Internet, SMS and email users and the coronavirus COVID 19 is no different. In the United States an alerts has been issued by the Indiana Attorney General’s...
by Ryan Coyne | Mar 8, 2020 | Cyberlaw by Eoin Campbell
The UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office, or ICO, has imposed a fine of £500,000 ($603,750) on Cathay Pacific Airways for its failure to adequately protect the personal data of customers. The half-million pounds fine is in fact the maximum possible under the...
by Ryan Coyne | Mar 2, 2020 | HIPAA News
The Lake Success, NY-located home health company, Personal Touch Home Care (PTHC), has begun contacting clients to advise them that a ransomware attack on its Wyomissing, PA-based IT vendor, Crossroads Technologies Inc. may have resulted in a portion of their...
by Ryan Coyne | Mar 1, 2020 | Cybersecurity
The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), which became enforceable on January 1 2020 has resulted in may Californian-based businesses struggling to ascertain what they must do to achieve compliance with the new legislation. In addition to this, on February 10, the...
by Ryan Coyne | Feb 28, 2020 | Cyberlaw by Eoin Campbell, GDPR Advice
Various industry specialists, including Adobe Analytics, have reported that increasing consumer concern, and indeed shop closures, following the worldwide COVID-19 outbreak is already influencing our online shopping behaviour in a significant manner. While traditional...
by Ryan Coyne | Feb 26, 2020 | Cybersecurity
The amount of data breaches that were conducted globally in 2019 was more than in any other previous year, coming in at a total of 7,098 detected breaches. While this might be seen as just a very small in the 7,035 breaches reported during 2018, the rise reported in...
by Ryan Coyne | Feb 12, 2020 | HIPAA Advice
The HIPAA password requirements list the procedures must be established in order to successfully and safely create, amend and protect passwords unless a different, equally-effective security measure is put in place. We suggest the best way to adhere with the HIPAA...
by Ryan Coyne | Feb 12, 2020 | CCPA News, Cybersecurity
In California a state senator in California is submitting proposed legislation which would allow for greater direct supervision in relation to direct genetic testing companies to the consumer. Santa Ana Democratic Senator Thomas Umberg has formulated the proposed...
by Ryan Coyne | Feb 4, 2020 | Cybersecurity
A newly-published report from the ransomware incident response outfit Coveware indicates that payments completed by ransomware victims grew noticeably during Q4, 2019. The average ransomware payment grew by 200% during Q4, as two of the most prolific ransomware groups...
by Ryan Coyne | Feb 2, 2020 | HIPAA News
Experts at TechCrunch have discovered a security flaw in a website hosting an internal customer relationship management system used by the clinical laboratory network LabCorp. While the system was password protected, the experts discovered found a flaw in the part of...
by Ryan Coyne | Jan 10, 2020 | CCPA News
An advisory has been released by California Attorney General Xavier Becerra reminding consumers of their new rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), which became enforceable January 1 this year. In the advisory Becerra outlines the rights allocated to...
by Ryan Coyne | Jan 7, 2020 | HIPAA Advice
As the number of medical professionals using personal mobile devices to communicate and collaborate on patient concerns increases it becomes more and more important to ensure that healthcare groups address the use of technology and HIPAA compliance. Many forms of...
by Ryan Coyne | Jan 6, 2020 | Cybersecurity
The FBI has released a TLP:Amber alert as a reaction to a number of cyberattacks involving the ransomware strainsLockerGoga and MegaCortex. The threat actors employing these ransomware variants have been focusing on large enterprises and organizations and normally...
by Ryan Coyne | Jan 2, 2020 | HIPAA News
The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has revealed a $65,000 HIPAA violation settlement has been agreed with West Georgia Ambulance, Inc., to address multiple breaches of Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act Rules....
by Ryan Coyne | Jan 1, 2020 | CCPA News, Cybersecurity
From today the Californian Consumer Privacy Act becomes enforceable, state-level legislation that obligates companies to alert users of the intent to monetize their data, and give them a simple way of opting out of this. It governs, and has massive implications for...
by Ryan Coyne | Dec 11, 2019 | Cybersecurity
A Colorado IT company that dedicates itself providing managed IT services to dental clinic has been infiltrated with ransomware. Via the company’s systems, over 100 dental clinics have also been targeted and have had ransomware deployed. The attack on Englewood,...
by Ryan Coyne | Dec 11, 2019 | HIPAA Advice
Healthcare cybersecurity is an increasing problem for organizations. Recent years have seen hacking and IT security incidents steadily increase and many healthcare organizations have struggled to secure their network perimeter and keep cybercriminals away. 2015 was...
by Ryan Coyne | Dec 8, 2019 | Cybersecurity
Healthcare groups still deploying Windows 7 and Windows 2008 have a very short amount of time left to upgrade the operating systems before Microsoft support will be discontinued. Support for both operating systems will cease on January 14, 2019. As of January 14,...
by Ryan Coyne | Dec 5, 2019 | HIPAA News
A legal action is being taken against Kalispell Regional Healthcare in Montana in relation to a phishing attack in which cybercriminals obtained access to employee email accounts including the protected health information of almost 130,000 clients. The impacted email...
by Ryan Coyne | Nov 20, 2019 | GDPR Advice
The General Data Protection Regulation became enforceable on May 25, 2018 and from that date companies that gather or use the personal data of EU residents were obligated to require with the GDPR, although there are restricted GDPR exemptions and derogations. Who Must...
by Ryan Coyne | Nov 12, 2019 | HIPAA Advice
The HIPAA guidelines on telemedicine are relevant for all medical professional or healthcare groups that provide a remote service to patients in their homes or in community centers. Many people wrongly think that communicating ePHI at distance is allowable when the...
by Ryan Coyne | Nov 12, 2019 | HIPAA News
Salem Health Hospitals & Clinics in Oregon suffered a phishing attack on July 31, 2019 that lead to an unauthorized person obtaining access to the email accounts of several employees. The breach was discovered within a day of the accounts being accessed and the...
by Ryan Coyne | Nov 9, 2019 | Cybersecurity
Six flaws have been identified in the Medtronic Valleylab energy platform and electrosurgery products, including one fatal flaw that could permit a hacker to obtain access to the Valleylab Energy platform and view/overwrite files and remotely execute arbitrary code....
by Ryan Coyne | Nov 7, 2019 | Cybersecurity
The University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC) has been sanctioned with $3 million HIPAA penalty for not encrypting mobile devices and other HIPAA breaches. URMC is one of the biggest health systems in New York State with more than 26,000 staff at the Medical...
by Ryan Coyne | Oct 16, 2019 | Cybersecurity
Healthcare groups can create strong defenses to stop cyber criminals from gaining access to sensitive data, but not all threats come from outside the organization. It is also crucial to put in place policies, procedures, and technical solutions to detect and prevent...
by Ryan Coyne | Oct 11, 2019 | HIPAA Advice
Our review of HIPAA history begins on August 21, 1996, when the Healthcare Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) was enacted into law, but why was the HIPAA Act formulated? The HIPAA Act was formulated to “improve the portability and accountability of...
by Ryan Coyne | Oct 3, 2019 | Cybersecurity
Security expert at Armis have discovered 11 vulnerabilities in the Interpeak IPnet TCP/IP Stack, a third-party software component implemented in hospital networks and certain medical devices. The flaws were reported to the DHS Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security...
by Ryan Coyne | Oct 3, 2019 | HIPAA News
Sarrell Dental, an Alabama-based not-for-profit Children’s dental and optical service clinic, has suffered a ransomware attack in which the protected health information of its patients may have been infiltrated. Sarrell Dental is the largest dental services clinic in...
by Ryan Coyne | Sep 20, 2019 | CCPA News, Cybersecurity
Facebook has taken the move to suspend “tens of thousands” of apps that are in operation on its platform as it continues to try and stem what it suspects is the collection of large amounts of user profile data. This move comes towards the end of a...
by Ryan Coyne | Sep 16, 2019 | Cyberlaw by Eoin Campbell, GDPR Advice
The Haga Hospital in the Hague has become the first Dutch body to be fined for violation of Europe’s new privacy law, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). NU.nl has reported that a fine of €460,000 is being imposed on the Hospital for failing to...
by Ryan Coyne | Sep 11, 2019 | CCPA News, Cybersecurity
The results of a recent survey published by privacy experts PossibleNOW has revealed that more than 50% US companies do not expect to be fully prepared for the introduction of the Californian Consumer Privacy Act when it comes into effect on January 1 2020. 1,500 US...
by Ryan Coyne | Sep 3, 2019 | Cybersecurity
A vulnerability has been discovered in Change Healthcare Cardiology, McKesson Cardiology, and Horizon Cardiology devices. The flaw could be target to take advantage by a locally authenticated user to insert files that could allow the attacker to run arbitrary code on...
by Ryan Coyne | Sep 2, 2019 | HIPAA News
A phishing attack on Bonita Springs, FL-based NCH Healthcare System was noticed on June 14, 2019 when suspicious email activity on its payroll database. The investigation indicated that 73 employees had replied to phishing emails and disclosed their account...
by Ryan Coyne | Aug 21, 2019 | Cybersecurity
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has completed a research study of 23 federal bodies and found widespread cybersecurity risk management weaknesses. Federal agencies are targeted by hackers, so it is crucial for security measures to be put in place to...
by Ryan Coyne | Aug 13, 2019 | Cybersecurity
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has published a new guide for manufacturers of Internet of Things (IoT) devices to assist them is ensuring that adequate cybersecurity measures are in place so that the devices are secure from threats when...
by Ryan Coyne | Aug 11, 2019 | Cyberlaw by Eoin Campbell
It has been a long journey, but what may prove to be a crucial data privacy case from Ireland has finally made its way to Luxembourg’s Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU). On Tuesday the court heard arguments in what has become referred to as the...
by Ryan Coyne | Aug 3, 2019 | HIPAA News
A physicians’ network for patients based in Southwest Louisiana called Imperial Health is contacting over 111,000 patients to make them aware that a portion of their protected health information has potentially been illegally obtained as part of a ransomware attack....
by Ryan Coyne | Jul 24, 2019 | Cyberlaw by Eoin Campbell, GDPR Advice
According to a story first reported by the Irish Times on the 23rd of July 2019, it appears that the reach of the General Data Protection Regulation may extend to a form of record keeping that few would have envisaged as relevant when the regulation was first drafted:...
by Ryan Coyne | Jul 17, 2019 | Cybersecurity
The European Union’s Competition Commission has initiated an official antitrust investigation to ascertain if Amazon is using sensitive data, gathered from independent retailers who use its marketplace, in breach of EU competition legislation. The Commission...
by Ryan Coyne | Jul 16, 2019 | HIPAA News
Adirondack Health is notifying almost 25,000 patients that a portion of their protected health information has potentially been obtained by a cyber criminal from the Vermont-based organization. The data may have included patients’ names, dates of birth, Medicare ID...
by Ryan Coyne | Jul 12, 2019 | Cybersecurity
The significance consumers place on the privacy and security of their health information has been reviewed in a recent nCipher Security survey. The survey i question was aimed at 1,300 U.S. consumers and looked into attitudes toward online privacy, the sharing of...
by Ryan Coyne | Jul 10, 2019 | Cyberlaw by Eoin Campbell, GDPR Advice
In January 2019 the French Data Protection Authority (the CNIL), hit Google LLC with a record €50m fine for failing to comply with the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). A decision made on the 28th May 2019 which imposes a €400,000 fine on SERGIC, a...
by Ryan Coyne | Jul 8, 2019 | Cyberlaw by Eoin Campbell, GDPR Advice
The UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has announced that it intends to fine British Airways for a recent infringement of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The security breach occurred when British Airways customers were directed away from...
by Ryan Coyne | Jun 26, 2019 | Cybersecurity
The Director of the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has released a warning after a rise in cyberattacks by ‘Iranian regime actors.’ The warning from Christopher C. Krebs came as tensions are mounting between...
by Ryan Coyne | Jun 22, 2019 | HIPAA Advice
Skype Text and messaging platforms like it are a very convenient way of quickly sending data however there is still some discussion around how HIPAA compliant Skype actually is. The Skype service incorporates security measures to stop unauthorized access of...
by Ryan Coyne | Jun 15, 2019 | Cybersecurity
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has released the findings of an audit of all federal government systems that operate legacy systems. The focus of the audit was to determine the extent to which legacy software and systems are in use, and which departments...
by Ryan Coyne | Jun 15, 2019 | HIPAA News
The Ullico Inc. subsidiary, Union Labor Life Insurance (ULLI), is alerting more than 87,000 plan members that a portion of their protected health information (PHI) has been exposed due to a staff member responding to a phishing email. As is often the case in...
by Ryan Coyne | May 25, 2019 | Cyberlaw by Eoin Campbell, GDPR Advice
Today marks the first anniversary of the introduction of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). As the solitary candle of the birthday cake is being blown out, we can take a moment to reflect upon what has undoubtedly been an eventful...
by Ryan Coyne | May 19, 2019 | Cybersecurity, HIPAA News
Healthcare cybersecurity’s poor state has been emphasised by a recent Forescout study. The study showed the healthcare sector is using legacy software, vulnerable protocols are extensively in use, and medical devices are not properly safeguarded. 75 global...
by Ryan Coyne | May 16, 2019 | HIPAA News
A ransomware attack has resulted in widespread file encryption at the Southeastern Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence (SCADD) in Lebanon, CT. The attack was discovered on February 18, 2019 when problems started to be noticed with its network. The investigation...
by Ryan Coyne | May 10, 2019 | CCPA News, Cybersecurity
According to a report released by the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) and OneTrust, prior to the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) becoming enforceable on January 1, 2020, nearly 50% of all companies will not be ready to comply with...
by Ryan Coyne | May 9, 2019 | Cyberlaw by Eoin Campbell, GDPR Advice
Italy’s first GDPR fine has been issued by the Garante, the Italian Data Protection Authority. Action was taken due to the failure to implement privacy security measures in the aftermath of a data breach on the “Rousseau” platform. The platform operates the...
by Ryan Coyne | Apr 17, 2019 | HIPAA Advice
The results of recent research conducted by the consultancy firm CynergisTek has shown that healthcare groups are not adhering with NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) controls and the HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules. For the study, CynergisTek reviewed the results of...
by Ryan Coyne | Apr 4, 2019 | Cybersecurity, HIPAA News
Main Line Endoscopy Centers, a group of outpatient endoscopy facilities based the Malvern, Bala Cynwyd, and Media regions of Pennsylvania, has notices an unauthorized person obtained access to the email account of one of its staff members following a response to a...
by Ryan Coyne | Mar 25, 2019 | CCPA News
The results of a new study, conducted by privacy compliance company TrustArc, in relation to the level of preparedness for California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) will lead to a lot of worry among tech groups based in California. It indicates that 86% of companies that...
by Ryan Coyne | Mar 20, 2019 | HIPAA Advice
Our February 2018 healthcare data breach report lists the major data breaches reported by healthcare groups, health plans, and business associates in February 2018. Even though February is a shorter month, but there was a rise in the number of healthcare data breaches...
by Ryan Coyne | Mar 12, 2019 | Cybersecurity
Several healthcare groups have asked for leniency to be shown for healthcare organizations that would mean avoiding financial penalties for breaches of protected health information if the breached entity that has implemented certain standards for securing protected...
by Ryan Coyne | Mar 6, 2019 | Cybersecurity
The IRS has kicked off its 2019 ‘Dirty Dozen’ campaign alerting taxpayers about the dangers of the most common tax-related phishing scams that result in tax fraud and identity theft. Every year the IRS supplies provides taxpayers, businesses, and tax professionals...
by Ryan Coyne | Mar 5, 2019 | HIPAA Advice
HIPAA password requirements state that procedures must be implemented for creating, changing and securing passwords unless a different, equally-effective security measure is chosen. The password requirements under HIPAA are available the Administrative Safeguards of...
by Ryan Coyne | Mar 3, 2019 | HIPAA News
UConn Health is making contact with almost 326,000 clients that some of their personal data was accessible due to a phishing attack on some of its staff members. UConn Health discovered the phishing breach on December 24, 2018. All email accounts were protected, and...
by Ryan Coyne | Feb 20, 2019 | HIPAA Advice
Amazon Web Services has all the security requirement to adhere with the HIPAA Security Rule and the company is willing to complete a business associate agreement with healthcare groups. So, is AWS HIPAA compliant? The answer is both Yes and No. AWS can be deemed as...
by Ryan Coyne | Feb 13, 2019 | CCPA News, Cybersecurity
The California Consumer Protection Act (CCPA) is due to become enforceable on January 1, 2020. Corporations, government agencies and other groups will be using 2019 to prepare for the new legislation. The proposed legislation allows Californian residents the following...
by Ryan Coyne | Feb 7, 2019 | Cybersecurity
ICS-CERT has released a waring in relation to three high severity vulnerabilities in the IDenticard PremiSys access control system. All versions of PremiSys software before version 4.1 are affected by the flaws. If the vulnerabilities are effectively targeted it could...
by Ryan Coyne | Feb 7, 2019 | HIPAA News
Patients of Community Health Systems’ (CHS), who had their protected health information (PHI) illegally obtains in a hacking attack in 2014 have been offered compensation in relation to the violation of their private Private Health Information (PHI). Tennessee-based...
by Ryan Coyne | Jan 21, 2019 | Cybersecurity
North Caroline Attorney General Josh Stein and state representative Jason Saine have introduced a bill to moderize data breach notification laws in the state and increase protections for state residents after an increase in data breaches affecting North Carolina...
by Ryan Coyne | Jan 18, 2019 | HIPAA Advice
In order to properly address the question, “Is Google Drive HIPAA compliant?” there are a number of factors to consider. This is due to the fact that HIPAA compliance is less about specific technologies and more about how technologies are utilized. Any software...
by Ryan Coyne | Jan 9, 2019 | HIPAA News
A ransomware attack that has possibly resulted in the theft of plan subscriber’ protected health information has been reported by a business associate of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan. This is the second recent data breach affecting Blue Cross Blue Shield of...
by Ryan Coyne | Jan 7, 2019 | HIPAA News
After an employee set up a mail forwarder to broadcast emails to a personal email account, Choice Rehabilitation of Creve Coeur, MO has discovered an unauthorized person illegally logged into a that corporate email account. The breach took place on July 1, 2018 and...
by Ryan Coyne | Jan 3, 2019 | HIPAA News
A phishing attack has potentially been compromised the private personal data of 8,400 patients of the Humana-owned Family Physicians Group in Orlando who are are being notified as a result of the breach. Family Physicians Group is one of the biggest providers of...
by Ryan Coyne | Jan 1, 2019 | HIPAA News
Notification are being sent to existing and former patients of the Dental Center of Northwest Ohio in Toledo to advise them that some of their protected health information may have been exposed due to a ransomware attack on one of its vendors. Managed IT service...
by Ryan Coyne | Dec 27, 2018 | Cybersecurity, HIPAA News
A new study by the consultancy firm Censuswide has revealed the extent to which employees are being tricked by phishing emails and how despite the danger of a data breaches and regulatory fines, many firms are not providing security awareness training to their staff....
by Ryan Coyne | Dec 24, 2018 | HIPAA News
Following the installation of ransomware and malware on a server belonging to Mind & Motion Developmental Centers of Georgia, it has been revealed that the group responsible which may have been able to access to 16,000 patients protected health information. The...
by Ryan Coyne | Dec 20, 2018 | HIPAA News
Almost 48,000 patients and guarantors may had their the payment information compromised Baylor Scott & White Medical Center in Frisco in a privacy breach which was noticed recently. The medical center, which is jointly operated by United Surgical Partners...
by Ryan Coyne | Dec 17, 2018 | HIPAA News
6,450 patients of Prairie Fields Family Medicine based in Fremont, NE are being made aware that their protected health information may have been compromised after it was included in an unencrypted spreadsheet that was sent to the incorrect email recipient. The email...
by Ryan Coyne | Dec 13, 2018 | Cybersecurity, HIPAA Advice
The winners of the Easy EHR Issues Reporting Challenge have been announced by the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC). At present, reporting EHR safety concerns is a tiresome process that...
by Ryan Coyne | Dec 10, 2018 | HIPAA News
Cancer Centers of America’s Western Regional Medical Center, located in Bullhead City, has revealed that a staff email account has been hacked following a phishing email attack. The phishing email seems to have been broadcast from the staff email account of a Cancer...
by Ryan Coyne | Dec 5, 2018 | HIPAA News
Georgia Spine and Orthopaedics of Atlanta (GSOA) is contacting thousands of patients to make them aware that some of their protected health information has been made accessible, and possibly stolen, due to a phishing attack. An inquest into the data breach showed that...
by Ryan Coyne | Dec 3, 2018 | HIPAA News
AccuDoc Solutions Inc., a supplier of healthcare billing services, has discovered a major data privacy breach in which the protected health information of 2,650,000 patients of Atrium Health was accessed by hackers. Morrisville, NC-based AccuDoc Solutions puts...
by Ryan Coyne | Nov 28, 2018 | HIPAA News
FHN Healthcare, which runs FHN Memorial Hospital in Freeport, IL, and a group of family healthcare centers located in northwest Illinois, has discovered that a laptop computer storing the protected health information of 4,458 clients has been stolen from the car of a...
