Posts Tagged ‘data breach’
Smaller Healthcare Organizations Increasingly Target of Cyber Criminals
If your healthcare organization hasn’t become the target of a data breach, there’s a good chance it will, and even more so if it’s an outpatient facility or specialty clinic. That’s the finding of a recent report issued by Critical Insight, a cybersecurity firm. Healthcare organizations have long been ripe for cyber attacks. In fact,…
Read MoreAddiction Treatment Center Faces Class Action Lawsuit Over Data Breach
A Pennsylvania addiction treatment center is the target of a class action lawsuit alleging that it not only failed to protect patients’ personal health information, but also that its “negligence and deceptive practices†resulted in the inappropriate access of information on nearly 8,000 people. The case is one of a growing number of class action…
Read MoreUpdating HIPAA compliance in an age of data breaches
Recent data breaches at some of the country’s major healthcare organizations have prompted the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) to update its 2011 version of its Guide to Privacy and Security of Electronic Health Information. The new guide, says the ONC, is specifically geared toward those providers who are “eligible professionals 
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