The Office for Civil Rights alerted healthcare organizations to be on the lookout for a new fraud attempt using postcards to gather sensitive information, according to The National Law Review.
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Ashley County Medical Center in Crossett, Ark., has terminated a former nurse for viewing 772 patients' records for reasons unrelated to medical care and treatment, according to an Aug. 7 KTVE report.
University of Maryland Medical Center recently began notifying 33,896 patients that their protected health information may have been exposed after an unauthorized user hacked into one of the health system's faculty physician plan member's email accounts.
A ransomware gang has targeted COVID-19 ventilator manufacturer Boyce Technologies and is threatening to post their data online, according to an Aug. 7 Cointelegraph report.
Foundation Surgical Hospital of San Antonio posted patients' information online inadvertently while trying to publish average hospital charges, according to a report from NEWS4SA, the local NBC affiliate.
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Zanesville, Ohio-based Muskingum Valley Health Centers has notified more than 7,000 patients that their personal information may have been exposed in a ransomware attack on its EHR system.
Patients who worry about their electronic health records being compromised in a breach incident are three times more likely to withhold information from their physicians than individuals who don't share the same concern, according to a July 31 Journal of…
An individual broke into the Salvation Army Pleasant Grove Corps Community Center in Dallas, which serves as a walk-up COVID-19 testing site, and stole several items including a computer, according to a local CBS 11 report.
Children's Hospital of Colorado in Aurora began notifying 2,553 patients of a recent employee email phishing incident that may have exposed their private information.
Multiple employee email accounts from Freeport, Ill.-based FHN Memorial Hospital were hacked in February, according to a report in the Journal Standard.