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 | Nov 26, 2018 | Cybersecurity, HIPAA News
Florida-based Key Dental Group has made contact with its patients about a suspected HIPAA breach which may have led to the unauthorized release of their protected health information (PHI). After amended its electronic medical record (EMR) database supplier, Key...
by Ryan Coyne | Nov 21, 2018 | HIPAA News
In October, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) revealed that the HealthCare.gov online portal had been hacked and the sensitive data of around 75,000 individuals had possibly been obtained. This week, the CMS released an update on the privacy...
by Ryan Coyne | Nov 19, 2018 | HIPAA News
Vancouver, Washington, based Southwest Washington Regional Surgery Center has been hit by a phishing attack that has lead to the exposure of 2,393 patients’ protected health information. The breach was restricted to a single staff email account and no proof was found...
by Ryan Coyne | Nov 15, 2018 | HIPAA News
Virginia based Inova Health System has started to contact 12,331 patients to advise them that some of their protected health information has been obtained by an unauthorized person. Law enforcement contacted Inova Health System on September 5, 2018 in relation to a...
by Ryan Coyne | Nov 12, 2018 | HIPAA News
Upstate University Hospital in Syracuse, NY, is getting in touch with 1,216 patients to advise them that some of their protected health information (PHI) has been impermissibly accessed by a former member of staff. Upstate University Hospital first identified the...
by Ryan Coyne | Nov 8, 2018 | HIPAA Advice
A $200,000 settlement has been agreed with Best Medical Transcription in relation to HIPAA breaches that were discovered during an investigation of a 2016 breach of 1,650 clients’ protected health information. Best Medical Transcription, a business associate of Virtua...
by Ryan Coyne | Nov 5, 2018 | Cybersecurity, HIPAA News
According to the most recent Beazley’s Q3 Breach Insights Report, Cyber Criminal campaigns attacks are increasing once again and healthcare is the most targeted sector. Ransomware attacks on healthcare groups comprised 37% of those managed by Beazley Breach Response...
by Ryan Coyne | Oct 31, 2018 | HIPAA News
Around 10,000 patients of Raley’s Pharmacy are being contacted to inform them that some of their protected health information (PHI) has potentially been impacted in a data breach. On September 24, 2018, a laptop computer was taken from a Raley’s pharmacy that may have...
by Ryan Coyne | Oct 29, 2018 | HIPAA News
Jones Eye Clinic and its affiliated surgery center, CJ Elmwood Partners, L.P, in Sioux City, IA has revealed that the protected health information of up to 40,000 of its patients may have been compromised.The private data breach occurred following a ransomware attack...
by Ryan Coyne | Oct 25, 2018 | HIPAA News
Michigan Medicine is contacting over 3,600 patients to make them aware of an impermissible disclosure of a restricted amount of their protected health information. In early September 2018, the Michigan Medicine Development Office initiated a fundraising campaign that...
by Ryan Coyne | Oct 22, 2018 | Cybersecurity, HIPAA News
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has released a warning about flaws in certain Medtronic implantable cardiac device programmers which could possibly be targeted by hackers to alter the functionality of the programmer during implantation or follow up visits....
by Ryan Coyne | Oct 19, 2018 | HIPAA Advice
HIPAA-covered organizations must take every possible precaution to ensure protected health information (PHI) sent and received by email is safeguarded both at rest and in transit in order to prevent unauthorized access to patient data. Many organizations opt to use...
by Ryan Coyne | Oct 17, 2018 | HIPAA News
Biomarin Pharmaceutical, based in Novato, CA-based has discovered two staff email accounts have been compromised due to a phishing attack in which a non-permanent employee’s login details were obtained by the hacker. The attack was noticed on June 21, 2018 and swift...
by Ryan Coyne | Oct 14, 2018 | HIPAA News
Letters have been mailed to approximately 21,000 individuals on medical assistance by the Minnesota Department of Human Services to alert them of a potential breach of their protected health information (PHI) due to two phishing campaigns which took place recently....
by Ryan Coyne | Oct 10, 2018 | Cybersecurity, HIPAA News
The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General (HHS OIG) is highlighting awareness of the measures it implements to address cyberthreats within the HHS and the healthcare sector as a whole and is implementing measure to raise transparency of...
by Ryan Coyne | Oct 8, 2018 | HIPAA News
A data breach, that saw the highly sensitive protected health information of 93 lower-income HIV positive individuals stolen by unauthorized individuals, will go to trial after a lawsuit submitted by Lambda Legal on behalf of a victim survived a motion to dismiss....
by Ryan Coyne | Oct 5, 2018 | HIPAA Advice
It is vital for all staff members in the healthcare sector to have a firm grasp of what a HIPAA violation is and how to report one. Understanding what a HIPAA violation entails should be included in HIPAA training, as should the correct individual to direct a report...
by Ryan Coyne | Oct 3, 2018 | HIPAA News
A not-for-profit 115-bed community hospital in Ogdensburg, NY, Claxton-Hepburn Medical Center has sacked several employees for accessing patient health records without official permission.The PHI breaches were identified during an internal review. It is not yet...
by Ryan Coyne | Oct 1, 2018 | Cybersecurity, HIPAA News
Uber, the peer-to-peer ridesharing, taxi cab, food delivery, bicycle-sharing and transportation network company has settled a fine in relation to a 2016 cyber-attack that exposed data from 57 million customers and drivers for $148m. The payment in question settles the...
by Ryan Coyne | Sep 27, 2018 | HIPAA News
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Rhode Island (BCBSRI) is contacting 1,567 plan subscribers that a portion of their protected health information has been impermissibly made accessible by one of its business partners. A BCBSRI vendor was hired to issue explanation of...
by Ryan Coyne | Sep 24, 2018 | HIPAA News
A former staff member of the emergency department of Brooklyn’s Kings County Hospital is accused of stealing the protected health information of at least 100 patients while employed there. The same person is accused of sharing this information to another individual...
by Ryan Coyne | Sep 19, 2018 | Cybersecurity
The New York Attorney General has fined the Arc of Erie County $200,000 by breaching HIPAA Rules when it did not secure the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of its customers. The Arc of Erie County, a nonprofit social services agency and chapter of the...
by Ryan Coyne | Sep 19, 2018 | Cybersecurity
Several studies have been conducted to assess the cost of cybercrime in the United States, although there is little data on the cost of cyberattacks in Germany. That has been addressed with a recent survey that sought to assess the extent to which German firms are...
by Ryan Coyne | Sep 17, 2018 | HIPAA News
Honolulu-based Fetal Diagnostic Institute of the Pacific (FDIP) was hit by a ransomware attack on June 30 this year. File-encrypting software was uploaded to an FDIP server and encrypted a wide range of file types some of which were patient medical records. FDIP...
by Ryan Coyne | Sep 12, 2018 | HIPAA News
Reliable Respiratory, a Norwood, MA-based respiratory care organisation has been subjected to a phishing attack that has impacted several thousand of its clients. A cyberattack was first noticed on July 3, 2018, after the detection of unusual activity in an staff...
by Ryan Coyne | Sep 10, 2018 | HIPAA News
The New Mexico Department of Health is trying to ascertain how the private medical records of some of its clients came to fall from a truck while being taken from the hospital to a secure storage center. The records originated at Turquoise Lodge Hospital, a...
by Ryan Coyne | Sep 6, 2018 | HIPAA Advice
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) brought in many new regulations for healthcare groups, but who polices HIPAA? Which federal departments are charged with making sure HIPAA Rules are adhered to by covered bodies and their business...
by Ryan Coyne | Sep 6, 2018 | GDPR Advice
by Ryan Coyne | Sep 6, 2018 | HIPAA News
A mailing mistake that was sent to Missouri Care subscribers reminding them to reserve well-child visits has resulted in the accidental disclosure of the personal data of approximately 20,000 children to other Missouri Care subscribers. The personal information...
by Ryan Coyne | Sep 3, 2018 | HIPAA News
Authentic Recovery Center, a West Los Angeles-based drug and alcohol treatment center, is contacting 1,790 clients to inform them that some of their personally identifiable information (PII) and protected health information (PHI) may have been stolen by an...
by Ryan Coyne | Aug 31, 2018 | HIPAA Advice
Many healthcare groups have considered the Zoho Office Suite as an alternative software package to organize workflows, but can Zoho be deemed HIPAA compliant? Zoho: What is it? Based in Pleasanton, CA Zoho is developer of cloud applications and web-based utilities...
by Ryan Coyne | Aug 29, 2018 | HIPAA News
A survey carried out by Ovum for analytics firm FICO has pointed to the fact that there has been a sharp rise in companies signing up for cybersecurity insurance, but the healthcare sector in general has been slow to follow this trend. In 2017 when the previous survey...
by Ryan Coyne | Aug 27, 2018 | HIPAA News
Central Colorado Dermatology (CCD) has made contact with over 4,000 clients that some of their protected health information (PHI) has possibly been obtained by cyber criminals during a ransomware attack on its IT systems. An unauthorized person obtained access to...
by Ryan Coyne | Aug 24, 2018 | HIPAA Advice
Most HIPAA covered bodies, business associates, and healthcare workers take lots of precautions care to ensure HIPAA Rules are adhered to, but what happens when there is accidental HIPAA violation? How should healthcare workers, covered bodies, and business associates...
by Ryan Coyne | Aug 23, 2018 | HIPAA News
InterAct of Michigan, a provider of mental health and substance abuse treatments through health centers in Kalamazoo and Grand Rapids, has found an unauthorized person has obtained access to the email account of a staff member and may have viewed and copied the...
by Ryan Coyne | Aug 20, 2018 | HIPAA News
Over 258,000 people have had their personal health information, personal identification information and/or tax information accessible online due to a data security incident in Adams County, Wisconsin. A possible security breach was discovered on March 28, 2018 after...
by Ryan Coyne | Aug 16, 2018 | HIPAA News
A group of urgent care clinics in Atlanta, Chicago, Austin, Dallas, Fort Worth, and Houston, MedSpring Urgent Care has identified a breach that occurred when an unauthorized individual has gained access to an email account due to an employee being tricked by a...
by Ryan Coyne | Aug 13, 2018 | HIPAA News
Jefferson City, Missouri based SSM Health St. Mary’s Hospital is contacting hundreds of thousands of patients to warn them that some of their protected health information has been left unprotected and may have have been accessed by unauthorized parties. On November...
by Ryan Coyne | Aug 10, 2018 | HIPAA Advice
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) is a landmark piece of data protection legislation in the USA. What is it that makes HIPAA so significant? What reform did HIPAA bring in and what are the benefits to the healthcare sector and patients?...
by Ryan Coyne | Aug 10, 2018 | GDPR Advice
by Ryan Coyne | Aug 8, 2018 | HIPAA Advice
A not-for-profit health system that operates Central Washington Hospital, Wenatchee Valley Hospital and a dozen satellite clinics in Central and North Central Washington, has experienced a data breach incident involving a staff member’s email account that may have...
by Ryan Coyne | Aug 5, 2018 | HIPAA News
A huge UnityPoint Health phishing attack has been reported to the HHS’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) , one in which the protected health information of up to 1.4 million patients could have been obtained by cyber criminals. So far, this phishing incident is the...
by Ryan Coyne | Aug 3, 2018 | HIPAA News
A mistake has resulted in the exposure of more than 19,000 patients’ protected health information (PHI) took place during a software upgrade on a server owned by a transcription service provider. Patients impacted by the breach had attended Orlando Orthopaedic Center...
by Ryan Coyne | Aug 2, 2018 | HIPAA Advice
Does Azure comply with HIPAA? Can Microsoft’s cloud services be implemented by HIPAA covered bodies without breaching HIPAA Rules? Many healthcare groups are considering shifting some of their services to the cloud, and a large number already have. The cloud provides...
by Ryan Coyne | Jul 30, 2018 | HIPAA News
A class action lawsuit submitted after a staff-member related data breach at Flowers Hospital in Dothan, Alabama in 2014 is likely to be settled. The settlement is awaiting final court approval, although approval seems imminent and a resolution to this four-year legal...
by Ryan Coyne | Jul 28, 2018 | HIPAA Advice
The Federal Communication Commission has released a Declaratory Ruling and Order to clarify TCPA rules in relation to HIPAA and patient telephone calls. Some healthcare suppliers have had difficulty understanding TCPA rules in relation to HIPAA and patient telephone...
by Ryan Coyne | Jul 26, 2018 | HIPAA News
AK-based billing company, Golden Heart Administrative Professionals, a Fairbanks is alerting 44,600 people that some of their protected health information has potentially been obtained by unauthorized people due a recent ransomware attack. The ransomware was placed on...
by Ryan Coyne | Jul 20, 2018 | HIPAA News
An employee’s email account, that contained the protected health information of approximately 8,400 patients of Billings Clinic in Billings, MT has been illegally accessed. The breach was discovered by the clinic’s cybersecurity systems on May 14, 2018, with...
by Ryan Coyne | Jul 19, 2018 | HIPAA Advice
Software or an email application platform can never be completely HIPAA compliant, as compliance is dependent on how the software is being used rather than the software itself. However, software and email services can make it easier to comply with HIPAA. For this to...
by Ryan Coyne | Jul 17, 2018 | HIPAA News
Cass Regional Medical Center in Harrisonville, MO suffered a ransomware attack at Around 11am on Monday July 9 that impacted its communication system and stopped staff from logging onto its electronic medical record (EHR) system. The clinic had measures in place for...
by Ryan Coyne | Jul 16, 2018 | HIPAA News
A former staff member of Arkansas Children’s Hospital is being investigated by law authorities in relation to the theft and misuse of patients’ protected health information. The breach notice submitted to the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil...
by Ryan Coyne | Jul 12, 2018 | GDPR Advice
by Ryan Coyne | Jul 12, 2018 | HIPAA News
In 2016, Radnor, PA-based Main Line Health Inc., fired a member of staff for breaching Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Rules by viewing the personal records of a co-worker without authorization on two different occasions. In such instances,...
by Ryan Coyne | Jul 11, 2018 | HIPAA News
Manitowoc County in Wisconsin has revealed that protected health information has been illegally obtained due to a successful phishing attack. The incident happened close to January 14, 2018, although the attack and data breach was not identified until April 24. While...
by Ryan Coyne | Jul 9, 2018 | HIPAA News
Humana is contacting members across the US to notify them that their PHI may have been been accessed during a ‘sophisticated’ spoofing campaign. A spoofing attack refers to a concerted effort by a threat actor or bot to gain access to a system or data using illegally...
by Ryan Coyne | Jul 6, 2018 | CCPA News, Cybersecurity
On June 28, 2018, California passed AB 375, the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA), which will become effective January 1, 2020. It is thought that this will be the first of many State laws in the United States inspired by European Union’s General...
by Ryan Coyne | Jul 5, 2018 | HIPAA Advice
The Alaska Department of Health and Social Services (ADHSS) is contacting ‘more than 500’ individuals to inform them that some of their protected health information (PHI) may have been accessed by hackers. On April 26, the ADHSS found that malware had been placed on...
by Ryan Coyne | Jul 4, 2018 | HIPAA News
In the past few days, Associated Dermatology & Skin Cancer Clinic of Helena, MT, has reported a breach of physical protected health information (PHI) that may have impacted up to 1,254 patients. A journal managed by an employee of Associate Dermatology was taken...
by Ryan Coyne | Jul 2, 2018 | HIPAA News
Med Associates the health billing company, located in Latham, NY-based, which provides claims services to over 70 healthcare providers, has found that an employee’s computer has been logged onto by an unauthorized individual. It is possible that the hacker obtained to...
by Ryan Coyne | Jun 28, 2018 | Cybersecurity, HIPAA News
ICS-CERT has released a warning after identifying eight vulnerabilities in version 8 of Natus Xltek NeuroWorks software implemented in Natus Xltek EEG medical products. If the weaknesses are successfully exploited they could allow a hacker to crash a vulnerable device...
by Ryan Coyne | Jun 26, 2018 | HIPAA News
After what is believed to have been inappropriate accessing of patient health records by staff members, Washington Health System has decided to suspend several staff members while the privacy breach is reviewed. While it has not been revealed how many staff members...
by Ryan Coyne | Jun 22, 2018 | GDPR Advice
by Ryan Coyne | Jun 21, 2018 | HIPAA News
New guidance for HIPAA-covered bodies to streamline HIPAA authorizations for uses of protected health information for research purposes has been released by the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights , as required by the 21st Century Cures...
by Ryan Coyne | Jun 20, 2018 | Cybersecurity, HIPAA News
The results of a HIMSS survey has revealed that medical device security is a strategic focus for most healthcare groups, yet fewer than 50% of healthcare providers have an approved budget for addressing security weaknesses in medical devices. For the survey, HIMSS...
by Ryan Coyne | Jun 20, 2018 | HIPAA News
A phishing attack has been experienced by the Florida Agency for Persons with Disabilities (FAPD), which provides support services for people with disabilities such as autism, cerebral palsy, spina bifida, and Downs syndrome. The phishing attack took place on April...
by Ryan Coyne | Jun 19, 2018 | HIPAA News
A former member of staff at the Veteran Affairs Medical Center located in Long Beach, CA who illegally stole the protected health information (PHI) of over 1,000 patients has been given a three-year jail sentence. Albert Torres, 51, was working as a clerk in the Long...
by Ryan Coyne | Jun 18, 2018 | HIPAA News
Two HIPAA-covered organizations are making their patients aware that some of their protected health information (PHI) has been stolen by unauthorized individuals in recent times. PHI Stolen from Staff Member of Christus Spohn Hospitals The protected health information...
by Ryan Coyne | Jun 17, 2018 | GDPR Advice
by Ryan Coyne | Jun 15, 2018 | HIPAA Advice
The small distinction between HIPAA medical records retention and HIPAA record retention can lead to some confusion when discussing HIPAA retention requirements. This article seeks to explain what records need to be retained under HIPAA, and what other retention...
by Ryan Coyne | Jun 15, 2018 | HIPAA News
HealthEquity Inc. has been hit by a phishing attack leading to the exposure of members’ protected health information. The data breach was restricted to one email account, although a review of the messages in the account showed a range of PHI was potentially stolen by...
by Ryan Coyne | Jun 14, 2018 | HIPAA News
A staff member at Phoenix-based Terros Health was tricked by a phishing scam and mistakenly handed over login credentials to the hacker. That person accessed the employee’s email account and may have viewed or obtained a range of protected health information listed in...
by Ryan Coyne | Jun 13, 2018 | HIPAA News
The results of a recent survey conducted by Black Book Research show that 90% of hospitals and 94% of physicians have implemented mobile technology and believe that it is helping to enhance patient safety and outcomes, . The survey was carried out on 770...
by Ryan Coyne | Jun 12, 2018 | HIPAA News
3,700 plan members of Rise Wisconsin are being warned that some of their protected health information may have been obtained by unauthorized people during a recent ransomware attack. It is estimated that the ransomware was placed on on its IT systems around April 8,...
by Ryan Coyne | Jun 11, 2018 | HIPAA News
A nurse who shared patient data with her new employer has been suspended for 12 months by the New York State Education Department, while her former employer has been fined $15,000 for the breach of Protected Health Information. In April 2015, Martha C. Smith-Lightfoot...
by Ryan Coyne | Jun 11, 2018 | Cybersecurity
Towards the end of last week social media giant Facebook revealed it experienced a data privacy breach last week that placed 14 million users of the platform in danger. From May 18 and 27, a technical glitch meant that the privacy settings for new posts was...
by Ryan Coyne | Jun 8, 2018 | HIPAA News
Aetna have launched fresh attempts to recover some of the expenses they incurred in the ongoing legal battles in relation to a 2017 privacy breach involving the exposure of patients’ sensitive health information. A new lawsuit has been submitted by the insurance...
by Ryan Coyne | Jun 8, 2018 | HIPAA Advice
HIPAA (The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) is an vital legislative Act that impacts the U.S. healthcare secor, but what is the purpose of HIPAA? Healthcare workers often complain about the limitations imposed by HIPAA – Are the advantages of the...
by Ryan Coyne | Jun 7, 2018 | Cybersecurity, HIPAA News
An official advisory over weaknesses impacting certain Phillips IntelliVue Patient and Avalon Fetal monitors has been released by the Department of Homeland Security’s Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team (ICS-CERT). Three weaknesses have been...
by Ryan Coyne | Jun 6, 2018 | HIPAA News
A new application programming interface (API) for developers that will allow them to develop health apps that include patients’ EHR data has been launched by Apple. Users who share their EHR data into the Apple Health Records app will be able to distribute the data...
by Ryan Coyne | Jun 5, 2018 | HIPAA News
A former member of staff from Mosaic Life Care Medical Center in St. Joseph, MO has filed legal action over wrongful dismissal and retaliation for her taking measures to avoid a breach of the False Claims Act. Debra Conrad, aged 57, claims she was wrongfully sacked...
by Ryan Coyne | Jun 5, 2018 | HIPAA News
In Colorado bill HB 1128 has been signed into law by Governor John Hickenlooper. This bill enhances security for consumer data in the state of Colorado. The bipartisan bill, sponsored by Reps. Cole Wist (R) and Jeff Bridges (D) and Sens. Kent Lambert (R) and Lois...
by Ryan Coyne | Jun 1, 2018 | HIPAA Advice
The Healthcare Insurance Portability and Accountability Act states that that an individual(s) within a Covered Entity or Business Associate must be assigned the duties of HIPAA Compliance Officer. The individual filling this role can be an existing employee or a new...
by Ryan Coyne | Jun 1, 2018 | HIPAA News
A number of different data breaches and violations of HIPAA Rules have been discovered by Dignity Health in the past few weeks. One incident involved a staff member accessing the PHI of patients without official permission, a mistake occurred that allowed a business...
by Ryan Coyne | May 31, 2018 | HIPAA News
Purdue University have been discovered two security breaches that may have lead to unauthorized people obtaining access to the protected health information of patients. During April Purdue University’s security team identified a file on computers used by Purdue...
by Ryan Coyne | May 30, 2018 | HIPAA News
Boston-based Steward Healthcare System fired a psychiatrist for breaching HIPAA Rules but must now show evidence to jury that he did so. The psychiatrist, Dr. Alexander Lipin, argues he was relieved of his position due to his taking extended disability leave, not for...
by Ryan Coyne | May 29, 2018 | HIPAA News
There was a provision included in the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, passed in 2009, for the Department of Health and Human Services to share a portion of HIPAA settlements with those affected by HIPAA breaches. There has...
by Ryan Coyne | May 28, 2018 | HIPAA News
Aultman Health Foundation, which operates Aultman Hospital in Canton, OH, is alerting around 42,600 patients that some of their protected health information may have been accessed due to a phishing attack. Unauthorized and unknown people succeeded in obtaining access...
by Ryan Coyne | May 26, 2018 | Cybersecurity, HIPAA News
By implementing the Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance (DMARC) Standard, healthcare organizations can identify and restrict email spoofing and abuse of their domains; however, relatively few healthcare groups are using DMARC for spam...
by Ryan Coyne | May 25, 2018 | HIPAA News
If your organization is governed by some (Business Associates) or all (Covered Entities) of the Privacy Rule, it is necessary to obtain a valid release form for HIPAA compliance before Protected Health Information (PHI) is used or disclosed for a purpose not required...
by Ryan Coyne | May 24, 2018 | HIPAA News
Associates in Psychiatry and Psychology (APP) a Rochester, Minnesota-based health organization has suffered a ransomware attack that targeted several computers that stored patients’ protected health data. The ransomware attack was identified on March 31, 2018. Patient...
by Ryan Coyne | May 23, 2018 | HIPAA News
Baltimore-based healthcare provider LifeBridge Health has revealed, in a press release issued on May 16, that it had encountered a data breach. While the release made no reference to number of patients impacted at the time of it being issued, additional information...
by Ryan Coyne | May 21, 2018 | HIPAA News
A May 17, 2018 ransomware attack that took part of the network belonging to Allied Physicians Group of Michiana out of action following the encryption of several files on its network. At present it remains unclear whether any protected health information encrypted. A...
by Ryan Coyne | May 21, 2018 | GDPR Advice
The General Data Protection Regulation will be enforceable from Friday, May 25. Consequently, there has been a lot of media coverage of this new European Union leglisation. There are a lot of misconceptions concerning what GDPR actually states, whom it affects and how...
by Ryan Coyne | May 19, 2018 | HIPAA Advice
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) is a pivotal piece of legislation, but why is HIPAA so significant? What alternations did HIPAA introduce and what are the advantages that it allocate to the healthcare industry and patients? Introduced...
by Ryan Coyne | May 19, 2018 | HIPAA News
The protected health information of 2,553 patients of Eye Care Surgery Center, Inc., of Baton Rouge, LA has been stolen following the theft of a A laptop computer containing. The theft in question was noticed by Eye Care Surgery Center on February 26, 2018. While it...
by Ryan Coyne | May 12, 2018 | HIPAA News
An error has caused a database utilized by Cerebral Palsy Research Foundation of Kansas (CPRF) to have its safeguard switched off for 10 months, making the protected health information (PHI) of 8,300 patients accessible. The demographic database that was affected was...
by Ryan Coyne | May 12, 2018 | HIPAA Advice
Google Drive can deemed as compliant and non-compliant with HIPAA. This is due to the fact that compliance is less about technology and more about how technology is utilized on a daily basis. Even a software solution or cloud service that is found to be...
by Ryan Coyne | May 10, 2018 | HIPAA News
Capital Digestive Care, a Silver Spring, MD-based gastroenterology group has revealed that one of its business associates shared files to a commercial cloud server that did not have proper security controls, exposing the protected health information of up to 17,639...
by Ryan Coyne | May 10, 2018 | HIPAA News
Capital Digestive Care, a Silver Spring, MD-based gastroenterology group has revealed that one of its business associates shared files to a commercial cloud server that dd not have appropriate security controls, exposing the protected health information of up to...
by Ryan Coyne | May 9, 2018 | Cybersecurity, HIPAA News
A recently-published Black Book Research report shows that approximately 90% of healthcare groups have encountered a data violation since Q3 2016, yet IT security investment at 88% of hospitals remains at 2016 figures. This information is the result of a survey of...
