Apr 30, 2019 | Business Associate, Business Associates, HSN
Patient data exposed Inmediata Health Group, Corp., a provider of clearinghouse services, software, and business processing solutions to health plans, hospitals, IPAs, and independent physicians recently announced a security incident affecting some customer data. The...
Mar 11, 2019 | Business Associate, HIPAA Violations, HSN
Rush University Medical Center is feeling the impact of a breach they themselves did not cause. A third-party vendor is responsible for compromised personal information of 45,000 patients of Rush Medical. The breach was caused by an employee of the claims processing...
May 14, 2018 | Breach, Business Associate, HIPAA Violations, HSN
According to the San Francisco Public Health Department, nearly 900 patients at two San Francisco hospitals had their personal information breached. On Friday, the Department stated that the breach occurred at San Francisco General and Laguna Honda hospitals when a...
May 8, 2017 | Business Associate, Business Associates, HIPAA Fine, HIPAA Violations, HSN
The Center for Children’s Digestive Health (CCDH) a small, for-profit practice has agreed to implement a corrective action plan for their potential violations of the Health Insurance Portability Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) Privacy Rule. According to the U.S....
Oct 12, 2016 | Breach, Business Associate, Business Associates, HSN
We have previously posted about HHS/OCR’s Guidance on HIPAA & Cloud Computing. The guidance is presented in question and answer form. To see the full guidance, you can go to the OCR page. Below are the 11 questions with partial answers to keep this...
Oct 11, 2016 | Breach, Business Associate, HSN
Pun intended. We all use cloud computing resources every day. All you have to do is go on the Internet, and chances are the website you are accessing uses cloud services. Our website, www.hipaasecurenow.com, uses the Amazon cloud. There are many definitions of...
