According to the Herald-Tribune, a registered nurse working in the Lakewood Ranch Medical Center’s emergency room was fired and arrest for using patients’ credit card information. While investigating separate fraudulent credit card cases, detectives determined the victims’ information had been stolen while receiving treatment at the Lakewood Ranch Medical Center’s emergency room, according to the...

This article written by HIPAA Secure Now! President and CEO, Art Gross, was published over at Dermatology Times. What happens if your business associate has a patient data breach? Here’s a cautionary tale: A medical practice comes to us in a panic. It turns out the physician had received a letter from the Office of...