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Keep up to date on industry newsAetna Forced to Fight Ongoing Legal Battle After 2017 PHI Breach
The insurer Aetna is still rebounding after the impermissible disclosure of members’ Protected Health Information (PHI) that resulted in a class action lawsuit…
Largest Health Data Breach in U.S. History: Anthem Pays OCR $16 Million
Anthem, Inc. has agreed to pay $16 million to the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) and has accepted a corrective action…
Changing Technology Impacts Health Care, Mobile-Information Security
The health care industry is one that is continually adopting new technologies for both their protection and for improved patient care…
Central Colorado Dermatology Discovers Ransomware Attack
Central Colorado Dermatology (CCD) recently provided a notice on their site to patients that ransomware had affected CCD systems…
Drama On, and Off, the Air: Hospitals Pay Big for ABC Show
On September 20, 2018, an oversite led to a massive Protected Health Information (PHI) breach that resulted in multiple HIPAA settlements totaling almost one million dollars…
Measles on Media: Employee Fired for Facebook HIPAA Breach
A Texas ICU/ER nurse was fired after she posted about a severe incident of measles on social media…
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