Avoiding Cybersecurity Disaster: Lessons from the Top Security Breaches
Throughout the world, the frequency of cyberattacks is on the rise, with the US featuring as the largest victim. Typically, small- and mid-size businesses are at [...]
Missouri Email Data Breach Affects Thousands
Cybersecurity threats are continuing to impact how healthcare organizations operate on a daily basis. Choice Rehabilitation of Creve Coeur, MO, recently experienced this when an unauthorized individual hacked into [...]
3 Tips to Improve HIPAA Employee Monitoring: Guidelines for Employers
The healthcare industry has embraced some of the many changes to healthcare technology. But the benefits of convenience and quality care have been paired alongside growing [...]
Aetna Pays $935,000 Fine for California HIV Status Breach
Aetna, a Connecticut-based health insurer, has agreed to pay the California Attorney General $935,000 to resolve a 2017 privacy breach that exposed state residents’ HIV status. [...]
New Bill Seeks to Expand California Data Breach Notification Law
Another California data breach has led state lawmakers to introduce additional laws in regards to HIPAA. California has already introduced some of the toughest data breach notification laws in [...]
OCR HIPAA Enforcement Gets Serious Amid Growing Patient Complaints
Patient complaints regarding HIPAA violations have become more prominent over the last few years and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil [...]
Florida HIPAA Fine: No BAA Results in $500,000 Fine
A recent $500,000 Florida HIPAA fine is just another example of the growing trend of HIPAA violations cropping up across the country, all stemming from the [...]
Business Associate HIPAA Violation, 20,000 Records Breached
Business associates are continually finding themselves in a state of turmoil when it comes to security and HIPAA compliance. Recently, Stanford University Hospital in Palo Alto, [...]
Think You’ll Save Money by Cutting Corners on HIPAA? Think Again.
The growing risk of HIPAA fines continues to pose a major threat to healthcare organizations across the industry. These ongoing risks result from misconceptions about how to address federal [...]
Georgia Eye Care Email Data Breach Impacts 24,000 Patients
This recent email data breach affecting a Georgia-based eye care group is yet another indicator that threats to data security are becoming more commonplace for healthcare [...]
