by Sheena.sampsel | Oct 15, 2018 | HIPAA News
Anthem, Inc. has agreed to pay $16 million to the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) and has accepted a corrective action after a series of cyberattacks led to the largest U.S. health data breach in history and exposed the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of...
by HIPAAgps | Oct 4, 2018 | HIPAA News
The health care industry is one that is continually adopting new technologies for both their protection and for improved patient care. Many of these technology improvements have to do with software, devices, or security. All of this technology has continued to grow...
by HIPAAgps | Sep 27, 2018 | HIPAA News
Central Colorado Dermatology (CCD) recently provided a notice on their site to patients that a ransomware attack had affected CCD systems. On June 5, 2018, CCD discovered a ransomware attack that affected certain files of faxed communications that were stored on CCD’s...
by HIPAAgps | Sep 23, 2018 | HIPAA News
On September 20, 2018, an oversite led to a massive Protected Health Information (PHI) breach that resulted in multiple HIPAA settlements totaling almost one million dollars, $999,000, to be exact. Separate settlements have been reached with three separate hospitals...
by HIPAAgps | Sep 13, 2018 | HIPAA News
Research and analysis done by SecureAuth + Core Security determined that while once two-factor authentication techniques were sufficient in deterring electronic Protected Health Information (ePHI) attacks, they are no longer strong enough to keep these attacks at bay....
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