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By now we are all aware of the horrible event that took place in Orlando over the weekend. Mass casualties caused local hospitals and ERs to respond heroically. One of the tasks required during these operations was the necessity to communicate patient status with family and loved ones. Unfortunately, this was not handled very well....
If you go back in time, to 2004, and look at Facebook it looks a lot different than it does today. The same can be said for applications like Microsoft Word or Excel. As these services or products mature they evolve – offering improved functionality, performance, stability and features. New HSN HIPAA Training Like Facebook...
A married couple — both doctors who shared a medical practice — almost divorced over a HIPAA breach that blindsided them when a patient called to say that her medical records appeared in a Google search and she was filing a lawsuit. The orthopedist of a small practice didn’t want to fund the cost of...
First it was Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center that made headlines when ransomware disabled the hospital’s computer network. Now another California healthcare organization has become a victim. Los Angeles County Department of Health Services is the latest large healthcare organization to experience the pain of ransomware. According to the Los Angeles Times: Los Angeles County Department...
In this “always connected” society being without Wi-Fi and Internet access makes a lot of people uncomfortable. Many people have heard about the dangers of free Wi-Fi but still that doesn’t stop a majority of people from connecting when it is available. According to an article over at ZDNet, the security company Avast setup open...
Ransomware that crippled Hollywood Presbyterian Hospital made national headlines but ransomware continues to be a major menace for small to midsize businesses. A print shop in Lubbock, Texas was shut down last week due to ransomware. An employee opened an infected file and ransomware took control of the network. Click below to watch the video...
Quite often we hear about data breaches, but we don’t always hear about the consequences. On February 17, Memphis, TN media sources ran articles about a man who was indicted on felony fraud charges. According to a Commercial Appeal newspaper article: “Jeremy Jones is charged in a scheme to steal the identities of more than...
A hospital in Hollywood, CA has been a victim of a ransomware attack that has left computers unusable for over a week. According to a ZDNet article: the Southern California hospital has been left unable to practice its usual day-to-day operations. The hospital’s president and CEO Allen Stefanek said “significant IT issues” were discovered last...
Security experts have been predicting that large healthcare related data breaches will continue into 2015. With the Anthem Inc., breach of 80 million records this prediction is now a reality. An article over at Forbes explores why healthcare data is so valuable. Here are some of the reasons: Quantity of information—Think of the 15 pages...
An article over at Physicians Practice gives some useful tips to avoid HIPAA fines. 1) Conduct or update your security risk assessment required by the security rules – A security risk assessment is the core of the HIPAA security rule 2) Implement the administrative, technical, and physical safeguards required by the HIPAA security rule –...
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