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August 21, 2018 Legacy Health has found an illegal person has gained access to its electronic mail system and the protected health information (PHI) of roughly 38,000 patients. The Portland, OR-based health system manages two local hospices, four community hospices, and 70 health centers in Oregon, Southwest Washington, and the Mid-Willamette Valley and is the …

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August 19, 2018 A grave data break has been informed by Augusta University Health that has impacted roughly 417,000 people including faculty members, patients, and a limited number of students. Most of the patients affected by the break had earlier received medical facilities at Augusta University Medical Center or Children’s Hospital of Georgia, even though …

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August 1, 2018 Cofense has created a new product which will shortly be added to its collection of anti-phishing solutions for healthcare companies and included in its phishing-specific safety orchestration, automation, and reaction (SOAR) platform. The declaration comes at a time when the healthcare trade has been experiencing an uptick in phishing attacks. The previous …

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June 25, 2018 The Overdose Avoidance and Patient Security Act – H.R. 6082 – targets to reduce limitations on the sharing of health files of patients with addictions, lining up 42 CFR Part 2 – Secrecy of Substance Use Disorder Patient Records – with HIPAA. Presently, 42 CFR Part 2 only allows the revelation of …

Overdose Avoidance and Patient Security Law Approved by House Read More »

June 24, 2018 On June 19, 2018, the central government circulated the final law for the Central Policy for the Defense of Human Topics – The Common Rule. The objective of the Common Rule is to safeguard people who will take part in research, while also decreasing the managerial and regulatory loads for low-risk research. …

Common Rule Conformity Date Postponed Until January 2019 Read More »

May 6, 2018 Criminal fines for HIPAA violations are comparatively rare, even though the Division of Justice does follow criminal indictments for HIPAA breaches when there has been a grave breach of patient secrecy, such as an impermissible revelation of PHI for monetary gain or malevolent intentions. One such case has led to two criminal …

Massachusetts Physician Convicted for Criminal HIPAA Violation Read More »

April 22, 2018 The previous few years have seen an upsurge in the number of medical appliances that have come to marketplace. While those appliances have approved healthcare suppliers and patients to check and administer health in more ways than has ever been possible, alarms have been raised about medical appliance cybersecurity. Medical appliances gather, …

FDA Develops Five-Point Action Strategy for Improving Medical Appliance Cybersecurity Read More »

March 17, 2018 The Division of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General has circulated the findings of its 2017 fiscal appraisal of HHS conformity with the Federal Information Safety Modernization Law of 2014. The FISMA conformity assessment disclosed the HSS is carrying on to make improvements to its information safety program, even though …

OIG FISMA Conformity Assessment of HHS Demonstrates Improvements Made but Weaknesses Remain Read More »

February 4, 2018 Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey has declared the introduction of a new online data break reporting tool. The purpose is to make it as easy as possible for breached units to submit breach notices to the Attorney General’s office. Under Massachusetts data breach notice law (M.G.L. c. 93H), companies undergoing a breach …

Massachusetts Online Break Reporting Tool Started: Data Breaches Shortly to Be Openly Listed Read More »

February 14, 2018 Ademero is a document management software (DMS) supplier whose platform assists companies to keep trail of big numbers of documents and change to a paperless setting, but is Ademero HIPAA conforming? Can its DMS be used by healthcare companies without breaching HIPAA Laws? Ademero and HIPAA The HIPAA Safety Law contains needed …

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