Mar 22, 2017 | Breach, HIPAA Fine, HIPAA Violations, HSN, Policies and Procedures
According to an article over on tripwire, a covered entity is facing serious penalties after the Office for Civil Rights issued them a hefty fine for their failure to comply with audit procedures including review, modification and termination of users’ access. In the...
Mar 20, 2017 | Breach, HIPAA Violations, HSN, Policies and Procedures
According to an article on HIPAA Journal, over a 27 month period an employee of St. Charles Health System in Oregon accessed nearly 2,500 patient records without authorization. All it took to discover the unnamed employee had been inappropriately accessing patient...
Mar 15, 2017 | Breach, HIPAA Violations, HSN
With the dramatic number of security breaches over the last few years, it should come as no surprise that the healthcare industry has plans to increase spending on IT security. An article over at CIO talks about just how necessary the increase in IT security spending...
Dec 23, 2016 | Breach, HSN, Security Training
According to a Verizon study, data breaches at Small and Midsize Businesses (SMBs) occur more frequently than at larger companies. Another study found that the impact of a SMB breach could be devastating to the business. Find out more about the leading cause of SMB...
Dec 15, 2016 | Breach, HIPAA Violations, HSN
Peachtree Orthopedics has experienced a huge data breach that affects over 500,000 patients. It seems that Peachtree was a victim of a hacker who stole the information and went a step further by issuing a press release: It all began many months ago when we...
Oct 27, 2016 | Audit, Breach, HIPAA Fine, HIPAA Violations, HSN
HealthIT Security has a very good article on OCR HIPAA activities. A key message is that not all OCR complaints result in HIPAA violations OCR will continue to focus “its enforcement efforts and its resources” in areas of alleged non-compliance and “where corrective...
