by HIPAAgps | Jun 14, 2018 | HIPAA News
A growing trend in health care is specialization of treatments, which causes the decentralization of health care. No longer does one medical facility do checkups, critical care, lab work, and x-rays: everything is outsourced from one health care provider to the next....
by HIPAAgps | Apr 12, 2018 | HIPAA News
At the end of March, Cambridge Health Alliance released a statement notifying patients that the organization experienced a protected health information (PHI) breach. On January 31, Massachusetts Police Department notified Cambridge Health Alliance that PHI had been...
by HIPAAgps | Mar 30, 2017 | HIPAA News
Recently, the FBI issued a hacker-vulnerability warning to health care entities that may be storing protected health information (PHI) on FTP servers. On March 22, the FBI issued an alert to health care organizations warning that hackers may target a specific...
by HIPAAgps | May 5, 2016 | HIPAA News
The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) and NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital settled at $2.2 million for a breach case involving the “egregious disclosure of two patients’ protected health information (PHI),” the OCR stated in a recent press release. Released on April 21, the...
by HIPAAgps | Mar 28, 2016 | HIPAA News
At the end of 2015, the FBI discovered a breach of 21st Century Oncology’s database affecting more than 2 million patients. In accordance with the HIPAA requirements for reporting large breaches, Century Oncology recently posted a media statement on the organization’s...
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