April 6, 2020 More than 113,000 Patients of Brandywine Urology Consultants Ransomware Attack Delaware-based Brandywine Urology Consultants has made public that it suffered a ransomware attack on January [...]
March 28, 2020 COVID-19 Crisis: OCR Publishes Allowable Disclosures of PHI to First Responders The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has made available [...]
March 25, 2020 COVID19 Pandemic Leads to Huge Spike in Cyber-Attacks Targeting WHO An attorney for New York-based cybersecurity experts Blackstone Law Group has discovered that the World [...]
March 24, 2020 Coronavirus Pandemic: OCR Publishes Guidance on Telehealth and HIPAA HHS’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has released guidance on telehealth and remote communications. This [...]
March 21, 2020 HIPAA Compliance and COVID-19 Coronavirus HIPAA covered bodies – healthcare providers, health plans, healthcare clearinghouses – and business [...]
February 26, 2020 Webinar 03/18/20: Discover the Untold Benefits of HIPAA Compliance If you are a HIPAA-covered organisation, exiting associate, or you hope to begin providing services to [...]
February 23, 2020 Healthcare Worker Arraigned on 430 Counts Following Criminal HIPAA Violation A previous staff member of ACM Global Laboratories, part of Rochester Regional Health, has been accused of [...]
February 18, 2020 OIG Audit Investigation Uncovered Wrongful Use of Medicare Part D Eligibility Verification Transactions An audit completed by the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General (OIG) has [...]
February 14, 2020 Healthcare Data Breach Report for January 2020 Published The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights were inundated during January with [...]
January 20, 2020 2018 Phishing Attack Impacted more Quest Health Systems Discovers Patients than First Thought Health Quest, which is now an entity of Nuvance Health, has discovered the phishing attack impacted its [...]