ePHI of 8,000 Patients Exposed in Health Plan Breach
A Texas health plan said an email error resulted in exposed the electronic protected health information of over 8,000 patients.
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.
The Food and Drug Administration issued new guidance on electronic health record data security this week that encourages employing privacy and security controls when performing clinical trials.
A hospice in Tennessee didn't realize until months after suffering a phishing attack that it may have resulted in the access of sensitive protected health information.
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The law closes a loophole that could allow sensitive health data to be shared with the primary subscriber of a health plan.
A Vanderbilt researcher believes data breaches and a lack of cybersecurity at hospitals can be tied to patient deaths.
58 percent of PHI data loss incidents from 2016 to 2017 involved internal actors according to Verizon's new Protected Health Information Data Breach Report.
There were at least 37 breaches that impacted the healthcare industry, affecting 473,807 patient records, in January 2018.
According to a study published last week hospital breaches accounted for one third of all data breaches and affected the largest number of victims from 2009 to 2016.