Halfway Health Check

Aug 6, 2019 | HSN

We’re just passed the midway point of the year and if this were our own health report, we’d be failing miserably when it comes to data breach prevention. According to a recent report from Protenus and Databreaches.net, over 31 million healthcare records were breached...

Scrolling Through the Breaches

Jul 30, 2019 | HSN

Every day in my newsfeed I’m alerted to yet another compromise to patient information.  The headline isn’t always the attention-grabbing ones that we see when major credit companies or big-box retailers are exposed. These are just listed, one after the other,...

25,000 Patients’ Data Exposed in Email Hack

Jul 15, 2019 | HIPAA Violations, HSN

Approximately 25,000 patients are being notified by Adirondack Health that their protected health information (PHI) may have been obtained by a hacker. Vermont-based Adirondack Health is part of the Adirondacks Accountable Care Organization (ACO). Adirondacks ACO...

Lawsuit Filed Against the University of Chicago Medical Center and Google over Data Sharing

Jul 1, 2019 | HIPAA Violations, HSN

A potential class action lawsuit has been filed against the University of Chicago Medical Center (UChicago Medicine) by a former patient, claiming his and thousands of other patients’ medical records were shared with Google without authorization and without removing...

Quest Diagnostics Data Breach Could Impact Nearly 12 Million Patients

Jun 3, 2019 | HIPAA Violations, HSN

Quest Diagnostics, one of the country’s largest blood testing providers announced on Monday that nearly 12 million patients may have had their sensitive information compromised in a data breach. The breach occurred at one of Quest’s billing collections vendors,...