Crown Point, Ind.-based Franciscan Health sent letters to 2,200 patients that an employee had viewed their records "without a business reason," according to nwi.com.
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Vikrant Arora is the chief information security officer at Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City, where he oversees security and IT services for the 215-bed hospital that includes a 33-member medical staff.
Google began rolling out an open-source tool this week that allows organizations to share their datasets with other parties without violating the privacy of the individuals included in the datasets.
UMass Memorial Health Care's behavior health service in Worcester sent letters to 4,598 patients notifying them of an April 18 data breach, according to the Worcester Business Journal.
Don Fosen is system director of technology and CISO of Naperville, Ill.-based Edward Elmhurst Healthcare, a health system with more than 50 outpatient locations and 7,700 employees.
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Meditab, an EMR and practice management software provider, has notified two healthcare providers in Maryland that their patients' personal health information may have been exposed, according to the HIPAA Journal.
Both Olean (N.Y.) Medical Group and Seneca Nation Health System in Salamanca, N.Y., have lost access to their computer and EHR systems following recent cyberattacks on the organizations, Olean Times Herald reports.
Most (70 percent) healthcare information technology executives said they feel “extremely” or “very” confident in their knowledge of where their organization’s sensitive data is stored, according to a recent Integris Software report.