Category: Security

As the health law roll-out continues, more attention is being paid to the opportunities it may create for scammers and fraudsters. From: http://www.news-medical.net/news/20130716/Health-overhaul-scam-opportunities-emerge.aspx

On January 25, the Office for Civil Rights of the Department of Health and Human Services published new regulations that dramatically extend the reach of federal healthcare privacy and security law to a vast array of companies that do business with the healthcare industry, including many HIT companies. The long-awaited final omnibus regulations (the “Final…

Five workers and a student research assistant at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (Calif.) have been fired over privacy breaches involving patient medical records–and there is speculation that the patient was Kardashian, who gave birth to her daughter with rapper Kanye West in a birthing suite at the hospital on June 15, the Los Angeles Times reports.…

Five workers and a student research assistant at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (Calif.) have been fired over privacy breaches involving patient medical records–and there is speculation that the patient was Kardashian, who gave birth to her daughter with rapper Kanye West in a birthing suite at the hospital on June 15, the Los Angeles Times reports.…

Kim Kardashian's private medical records are finding themselves at the center of a HIPAA breach at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center — where Kardashian recently gave birth — after the hospital fired six workers for snooping on more than a dozen patients' health records. read more From: http://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/kardashian-hipaa-breach-catastrophe

Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Fort Worth, a 726-bed full-service medical center, has notified patients of a privacy breach in which portions of their protected health information has been compromised and found in a park as well as other public locations. Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Fort Worth, a 726-bed full-service medical center, has notified…

WellPoint, a large health payer headquartered in Indianapolis, will pay $1.7 million to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for a data breach that left the protected health information (PHI) of 612,402 people accessible to unauthorized individuals over the Internet during the course of a five month period. WellPoint, a large health…

In the biggest HIPAA privacy breach of 2013 – and among the largest to date – Texas Health Harris Methodist Fort Worth is notifying some 277,000 patients that their protected health information has been compromised after several hospital microfilms, which were supposed to be destroyed, were found in various public locations. read more From: http://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/texas-hipaa-breach-blunder-affects-277k