Although health insurer WellPoint changed its name to Anthem to better reflect its brand, the corporate name Anthem is now associated with a data breach that involved hackers stealing the data of as many as 80 million of its current…
Cybersecurity
In last week's State of the Union address, President Barack Obama mentioned his plans to bolster cybersecurity efforts in the United States.
Within the past few weeks, three shootings in healthcare settings made national headlines. In late December 2014, a man walked into the critical care unit of Wentworth-Douglass Hospital in Dover, N.H., in the early morning and shot and killed his…
I'm a fan of the blog PostSecret — if you're not familiar, it's an "ongoing community art project where people mail in their secrets anonymously" and those secrets are then posted online every Sunday. Secrets range from silly to serious,…
Tribeca Medical Center in New York is notifying patients of a data breach after discovering the theft medical records stored in a storage facility.
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Northfield (Minn.) Hospital & Clinics is notifying approximately 1,700 patients that their protected health information may be compromised after documents containing their information were placed in a commercial dumpster.
The U.S. District Court has indicted two people for their involvement in an identity fraud scheme in which they stole hospital patient records to file fraudulent tax returns, according to a Detroit Free Press report.
What is your hospital’s biggest security threat? Are you prepared to stop it? This paper examines the five layers of security you need to protect your patients and their information — plus the best ways to ensure physical security…
Health officials in Colorado inadvertently compromised the protected health information of 15,000 patients in a mailing error, according to a Denver Post report.
Greensboro, N.C.-based Cone Health has reported a data breach affecting more than 2,000 patients.