Since issuing its first HIPAA Right of Access case in September 2019, the Office for Civil Rights has settled cases with 16 different providers totaling $1.05 million.
Cybersecurity
Thirty of the most downloaded mobile health apps are highly vulnerable to application programming interface cyberattacks, which could let hackers gain access to patient health records and protected health information, according to a recent Knight Ink and Approov report.
San Diego-based Sharp HealthCare has agreed to pay $70,000 to settle a potential violation of the HIPAA Privacy Rule's Right of Access standard.
Along with the uptick in cybersecurity incidents at hospitals and health systems, patients have begun to take action in response to their data potentially being mishandled.
As healthcare moves to further adopt internet-connected devices to deliver care, new cybersecurity threats require hospitals and health systems to deploy strategic mitigation strategies, according to Tony Howlett, chief information security officer at SecureLink.
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Reno, Nev.-based Renown Health has agreed to pay $75,000 to settle a potential violation of the HIPAA Privacy Rule's Right of Access standard, which requires healthcare organizations to give patients copies of their medical records quickly and at a reasonable…
Ransomware group DoppelPaymer has published online two batches of protected health and personally identifiable information belonging to residents of Chatham County, N.C., according to a Feb. 9 Chatham News + Record report.
An Oldsmar, Fla.-based water-treatment plant was hacked Feb. 5 by an unauthorized user who tried to change the level of treatment chemicals in the city's water system to a dangerous level, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Nebraska Medical Center and the University of Nebraska Medical Center are alerting patients of a malware attack last year on its IT systems that may have exposed their protected health information.
UPMC began notifying patients Feb. 5 that their protected health information may have been exposed through a data breach at the Pittsburgh-based health system's billing and legal services provider last year.