Everett-based Western Washington Medical Group notified 842 patients in January after it discovered its janitorial service failed to shred some medical records and other protected health information prior to disposal.
Cybersecurity
The Texas Hospital Association is partnering with Clearwater Compliance, a healthcare cyber risk management and regulatory compliance solutions company.
Cisco, Apple, Aon and Allianz joined forces Monday to roll out a cyber risk management solution for businesses.
Of January's 116 total data breaches, healthcare accounted for 31 of them, or about 26.7 percent, according to the Identity Theft Resource Center's January data breach report.
Bangor-based Eastern Maine Medical Center began mailing letters Feb. 1 to 660 patients after it failed to locate a portable external computer hard drive containing their personal health information.
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Horne, a company Hattiesburg, Miss.-based Forrest General Hospital enlists to provide certain Medicaid reimbursement services, discovered one of its employees had fallen victim to an ongoing phishing attack that may have compromised Forrest's patients' protected health information.
Ransomware, a type of malicious software that holds a victim's files hostage until hackers are paid a ransom, is now recognized by the Oxford English Dictionary, according to The Washington Times.
As more businesses turn to the cloud to host their data, understanding HIPAA and ensuring the selected cloud solution is compliant becomes a necessity, according to CSO Online.
Numerous privacy incidents at health IT suppliers, hospitals and other healthcare organizations captured public attention last month.
Dell Technologies, which currently owns about 80 percent of the cloud computing company VMware, may sell itself to VMware in a reverse merger, according to CNBC.