Peachstate Health Management, LLC, doing business as AEON Clinical Laboratories (Peachstate), has agreed to pay $25,000 to the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and to implement a corrective action plan to settle potential violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Security Rule. …
Category: Health Data
Mercy University Hospital secures court injunction against ransomware hackers
Aodhan O’Faolain reports: A Cork-based hospital has secured injunctions from the High Court restraining any sharing, processing, selling or publishing of data believed stolen from its computer systems in the cyberattack. The orders were made in favour of the Mercy Hospital Cork against “persons unknown” responsible for accessing the hospital’s IT system, that is separate…
NM: Las Cruces behavioral health counselor accused of Medicaid fraud, identity theft
Algernon D’Ammassa reports: A licensed professional clinical counselor based in Las Cruces was indicted Friday on multiple counts of Medicaid fraud, identity theft and other charges. The grand jury indictment, filed in New Mexico’s Third District Court, accuses Cathy Chidester of Drop In Counseling of submitting fraudulent Medicaid claims, including one count of Medicaid fraud…
Zocdoc says ‘programming errors’ exposed access to patients’ data
Zack Whittaker reports: Zocdoc says it has fixed a bug that allowed current and former staff at doctor’s offices and dental practices to access patient data because their user accounts weren’t properly decommissioned. The New York-based company revealed the issue in a letter to the California attorney general’s office, which requires companies with more than 500 residents…
OK: Harper County Community Hospital targeted with ransomware
Kaylee Douglas reports that Harper County Community Hospital is now disclosing that it experienced a ransomware attack on March 24. Authorities say the protected health information that may have been compromised could include any of the following: first and last name, date of birth, home address, patient account number, diagnosis, social security number and health insurance…
Riagg files of thousands of patients open and exposed in a basement
The this post uses machine translation of a report in Dutch. It concerns the discovery of patient files on CDs found unsecured in the basement of a building that, until 2015, was a former mental health institution — the Riagg Rijnmond Foundation. Rutger de QuayRik Wassens report that the young man who found the files…