While the most commonly-known HIPAA violation may be a data exposure stemming from a computer vulnerability that went undiscovered until it was too late, healthcare organizations may be suffering from a number of other HIPAA violations without even realizing it.
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LifeOmic issued what the company officials are calling a "first-of-its kind" guarantee to protect customer data, the Indianapolis-based precision medicine company announced Nov. 28.
Digital healthcare leaders, like Doctor On Demand co-founder Adam Jackson, are transitioning to roles at up-and-coming blockchain companies, including Cambrian Asset Management, a firm that focuses on digital assets of cryptographic blockchains.
Researchers at Risk Based Security are warning healthcare providers using OpenEMR to a vulnerability in its configuration that may expose the system to a complete compromise, the firm wrote in a blog post.
Colorado Springs, Colo.-based Rocky Mountain Health Care Services notified 909 patients to a security incident in which an employee's laptop was stolen, potentially compromising patients' protected health information, according to HHS' Office for Civil Rights breach portal.
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The National Health Information Sharing and Analysis Center is joining the Global Cybersecurity Alliance and Agari, a cybersecurity firm, in urging healthcare organizations to combat email fraud by enhancing their email security practices in 2018.
Executives across industries are increasingly turning to the cloud to cut costs and enhance scalability. In fact, the shift away from on-premise data centers and into the cloud is expected to affect $1 trillion in IT spending across the globe…
The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services mailed letters to nearly 6,000 people who underwent routine drug screening for employment, intern and volunteer opportunities at its agency, notifying them of a recent incident in which a spreadsheet containing…
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center CIO John Halamka, MD, is tacking on another responsibility: editor-in-chief of the online, peer-review journal Blockchain in Healthcare Today.
Cottage Health System, a Santa Barbara-based healthcare organization, agreed to pay the state $2 million to settle allegations it failed to establish reasonable safeguards to protect patient medical information, which led to the exposure of nearly 50,000 medical records.