Aspirus and OSF Healthcare have joined Memorial Hermann Health System and University of Chicago Medicine in notifying their patients of a 2019 data breach in which a former employee at revenue cycle management vendor Med-Data uploaded patients' personal information.
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The addition of Trillium Community Health Plan has raised the tally to five healthcare-related organizations that have been affected by the data breach of file transfer vendor Accellion.
Healthcare organizations have a responsibility to protect health information from getting in the wrong hands. However, that data may be too easily accessible, according to a March 29 Varonis report.
More than 1 million healthcare records were affected by data breaches in March, more than tripling those affected in February.
A former employee at revenue cycle management vendor Med-Data uploaded patient information from Houston-based Memorial Hermann Health System and University of Chicago Medicine sometime during or before September 2019, according to a March 31 Chicago Sun-Times report.
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HIPAA protects a patient's personal health information, leaving many concerned that a vaccine passport would violate those protections.
In March, 36 organizations reported to HHS that 1,116,997 individuals were affected by data breaches.
The identities of Humana employees have been used to file fraudulent unemployment claims, according to a March 30 News6 report.
Apple Valley (Minn.) Clinic, part of Minneapolis-based Allina Health, recently transitioned to the health system's EHR platform following a ransomware attack on its tech services vendor that exposed nearly 158,000 patients' information.
Cybercriminals have exploited a weakness in encryption software and have used it to deploy Mamba ransomware into computers, according to a March 23 news release from the FBI.