by HIPAAgps | Oct 18, 2018 | HIPAA News
The insurer Aetna is still rebounding after the impermissible disclosure of members’ Protected Health Information (PHI) that resulted in a class action lawsuit. Since the start of the lawsuit, Aetna has paid $17 million in addition to settlements with the Attorney...
by Sheena.sampsel | Oct 15, 2018 | HIPAA News
Anthem, Inc. has agreed to pay $16 million to the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) and has accepted a corrective action after a series of cyberattacks led to the largest U.S. health data breach in history and exposed the electronic protected health information (ePHI) of...
by HIPAAgps | Oct 4, 2018 | HIPAA News
The health care industry is one that is continually adopting new technologies for both their protection and for improved patient care. Many of these technology improvements have to do with software, devices, or security. All of this technology has continued to grow...
by HIPAAgps | Sep 27, 2018 | HIPAA News
Central Colorado Dermatology (CCD) recently provided a notice on their site to patients that a ransomware attack had affected CCD systems. On June 5, 2018, CCD discovered a ransomware attack that affected certain files of faxed communications that were stored on CCD’s...
by HIPAAgps | Sep 23, 2018 | HIPAA News
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, $999,000, to be exact. Separate settlements have been reached with three separate hospitals...
by HIPAAgps | Sep 20, 2018 | HIPAA News
A Texas ICU/ER nurse was fired after she posted about a severe incident of measles on social media. The story has been convoluted some as this nurse is an anti-vaxxer, so many people thought she lost her job for that reason alone. It turns out that she lost her job...
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