PHI of 45,000 Exposed Following Third Party Data Misuse
The incident stems from an employee at a vendor working with the medical center improperly disclosing patient data.
The incident stems from an employee at a vendor working with the medical center improperly disclosing patient data.
There was at least one health data breach a day and 503 health data breaches overall in 2018 according to analysis released this week.
HIPAA fines are up. Audits by the Department of Health and Human Services are up. 2019 is shaping up to be a rather tumultuous and dangerous year for healthcare providers ramping up their HIPAA privacy obligations.
Patient-generated health data is being used more and more by physicians - while it can help supplement clinical data, PGHD isn't without its own data privacy and security concerns.
The company not only failed to encrypt electronic protected health information but failed to maintain a security monitoring system that could have flagged supicious and anomalous activity.
A Connecticut-based allergy practice agreed to pay $125,000 this week to settle the disclosure of patient information to a reporter.
More Protected health information (PHI) is leaked by healthcare providers, not hackers, academic research by Michigan State University and Johns Hopkins University released Monday says.
A hospital in upstate New York said it recently discovered a former employee inappropriately accessed patient medical records from 2016 to 2017.
A Texas health plan said an email error resulted in exposed the electronic protected health information of over 8,000 patients.
Research recently carried out by the Center for Quantitative Health at Massachusetts General Hospital found there have been 2,149 healthcare breaches, impacting 176.4 million patient records, since 2010.