RGH Enterprises, Inc. d/b/a Edgepark Medical Supplies (“Edgepark”) is an Ohio medical supplies provider that ships products directly to patients and bills their insurance for them. Rise Interactive Media & Analytics, LLC (“Rise”) is an Illinois firm that provides digital marketing services for Edgepark as a business associate. They also provide analytics and other services…
Category: Health Data
U.K.: NHS call center advisor found guilty of accessing medical records illegally
From the ICO, this press release: A former 111 call centre advisor has been found guilty and fined for illegally accessing the medical records of a child and his family. Martin Swan, 56, from Pinner, London, worked as a service advisor at the NHS 111 call centre in Southall when he illegally accessed the records….
Scots cancer patient hits out after major data breach of medical records at NHS Lothian by staff member
Sarah Vesty reports: A Scots cancer patient had hit out after discovering his confidential medical records were ‘inappropriately’ accessed by a member of NHS Lothian staff amid a major data breach. Martin Laing received a letter from the health board last week informing him of the incident, which is understood to have affected around 90 people. The 57-year-old, who…
Annual Report to Congress on Breaches of Unsecured Protected Health Information For Calendar Year 2021- HHS OCR
From their report: Summary OCR received 609 notifications of breaches affecting 500 or more individuals, representing a decrease of 7% from the number of reports received in calendar year 2020. These reported breaches affected a total of approximately 37,182,558 individuals. The most commonly reported category of breaches was hacking, and the largest breach of this…
BD issues cybersecurity alert for hacking risk found in Alaris infusion pump software
Andrea Park reports: A vulnerability found in software used to monitor some of BD’s infusion pumps could potentially give hackers access to personal data stored in the system. BD posted a cybersecurity bulletin about the issue Thursday and said it has already notified the FDA and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency…
$150 million: the cost of a cyberattack?
The cyberattack reported by CommonSpirit last year has reportedly cost the firm $150 million already. From their unaudited quarterly report: The Cyber security Incident has had an estimated adverse financial impact of approximately $150 million to date, which includes lost revenues from the associated business interruption, the costs incurred to remediate the issues and other…