by HIPAAgps | Apr 11, 2019 | HIPAA News
Brookside ENT and Hearing Center, a private practice based out of Battle Creek, Michigan, has been forced to permanently close its doors after becoming the target of a vicious ransomware attack. The owners, Williams Scalf, MD, and John Bizon, MD, found that the...
by HIPAAgps | Apr 4, 2019 | HIPAA News
Over the past few years, some positive and negative trends have emerged in the cyber-security industry. Using information from DataBreaches.net, a breach tracker, a healthcare compliance company, Protenus, tracked 2018 trends in health care data-breaches. Upon...
by HIPAAgps | Mar 28, 2019 | HIPAA News
While the issue of Internet of Things (IoT) device security has been raised before, this would mark the third attempt that congress would have made to pass a bill of its kind. For many, lax device-security standards have represented a major pain-point that has yet to...
by HIPAAgps | Mar 21, 2019 | HIPAA News
The Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) created a summary report in March 2019 based on audits and results of penetration tests from 2016 and 2017. The summary report covered eight unnamed HHS operating divisions. During the network and...
by HIPAAgps | Mar 14, 2019 | HIPAA News
Northwestern Memorial Hospital recently found itself in hot water when a potentially volatile, internal, Protected Health Information (PHI) breach came to light. Dozens of employees were reportedly terminated for accessing the patient records of the television...
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