The University of Alabama at Birmingham mailed letters to 652 patients notifying them of an incident at its Viral Hepatitis Clinic which may have exposed their protected health information, the hospital told Becker's Hospital Review.
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Amid the massive Uber data breach in which company officials paid hackers $100,000 to cover up the incident affecting 57 million users, three Democratic senators introduced a bill Thursday that would require companies to notify customers of data breaches within…
NHS Digital, the information and technology body of the U.K. National Health Service, launched a £20 million ($26.98 million) project to boost its security capabilities, the IT arm announced Nov. 27.
Privacy incidents at government departments, hospitals and other healthcare organizations captured public attention last month.
The Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson filed a lawsuit against Uber over its failure to disclose a data breach that exposed the data of nearly 57 million customers.
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The Federal Reserve is exploring a digital currency, similar to bitcoin, although its implementation would be far off in the future, the President and CEO of the Fed's New York branch William Dudley told The Hill.
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.
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.