Round Lake Beach, Ill.-based Hillcrest Nursing Center began notifying more than 1,000 residents in November that one of its staff physicians, who was fired in August, still had access to its EHR after being terminated and viewed their health information.
Cybersecurity
Some state officials have expressed privacy concerns over the Trump administration's requirement to have states submit personally identifiable health information of people who receive COVID-19 vaccines to the federal government, according to a Dec. 8 New York Times report.
Kalispell (Mont.) Regional Healthcare created a multimillion-dollar settlement fund for patients whose personal information was compromised in a data breach in 2019.
Towson, Md.-based Greater Baltimore Medical Center HealthCare detected ransomware Dec. 6 and shut down many of its IT systems as a result.
St. Louis-based Mercy Health reported a former employee unnecessarily viewed medical records and breached patient information, according to a Dec. 4 announcement.
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IBM's threat intelligence task force identified a global phishing campaign targeting the COVID-19 vaccine supply chain, according to a Dec. 3 report from the company.
St. Paul, Minn.-based Liv-On Family Care Center reported to HHS this week that it was the victim of a robbery that may have exposed the protected health information of 1,580 people.
Hackers based in North Korea are launching cyberattacks on drugmakers developing COVID-19 vaccines and treatments in hopes of securing information that can be sold or otherwise weaponized, the Wall Street Journal reported Dec. 2.
New York City-based Montefiore Medical Center informed patients this week that a former employee had illegally accessed patient information to create and submit fake invoices for unused surgical products.