While a stolen flash drive left the University of Rochester Medical Center with a multimillion-dollar settlement payment, other HIPAA cases were brought on due to improper data breach disclosures.
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A group of healthcare-focused venture capital firms has partnered with HITRUST, a security standards development and accreditation organization, to develop a set of best practices governing digital health startups' data security, TechCrunch reports.
Phoenix-based Banner Health has agreed to pay $6 million to patients involved in a class-action lawsuit over a 2016 data breach, according to BankInfoSecurity.com.
The Florida Board of Medicine ordered Michael Hall, MD, to pay $10,000 Dec. 6 for allegedly posting the personal health information of a former patient on Yelp, according to Florida Politics.
In its deal with Amazon, the United Kingdom's National Health Service has provided the online retail and technology giant with free access to healthcare information, according to The Guardian.
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New York City-based NYC Health + Hospitals is investigating whether an employee improperly viewed patient records.
One of the 130,000 patients who may have been affected by a data breach at Kalispell (Mont.) Regional Healthcare filed a lawsuit Nov. 25 against the health system, according to ABC Fox Montana.
Cybercriminals and other hackers can still find ways around what Microsoft Outlook said was a fix for a vulnerability, according to Wired.
Elizabeth (Colo.) Family Health began notifying 28,375 patients Nov. 22 of a security incident that may have exposed patient information.
Medical billing and coding provider Healthcare Administrative Partners is notifying 17,693 patients of a data breach that may have exposed their protected health information.