March 1, 2018 TOPEKA, Kan. – The Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services (KDADS) has begun to notify individual consumers about a recent incident in which personal or protected health information was disseminated to a specific group of KDADS business associates. On February 23, 2018, KDADS became aware of a potential breach of personal…
Category: Health Data
Resource: 5 steps to get a handle on your practice’s cyber vulnerability
This free webinar, recorded in September, 2017, might be very helpful to small practices or solo practitioners who are feeling overwhelmed about how to start hardening their security to comply with HIPAA and to prevent attacks or breaches. From the AMA: A staggering 83 percent of physicians recently told AMA researchers that their practices have…
Verizon 2018 Protected Health Information Data Breach Report
From Verizon: We’ve re-examined the data within our Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) series (2016 and 2017) to focus in on the healthcare sector’s unique profile and security challenges, and particularly the use/abuse of protected health information (PHI). Our 2018 Protected Health Information Data Breach Report (PHIDBR) is underpinned by 1,368 incidents from this caseload…
St. Peter’s Surgery & Endoscopy Center notifying 135,000 patients of cyber attack in January
Well, I knew about the incident, but didn’t know until today that the ransomware incident involving St. Peter’s Surgery & Endoscopy Center in Albany, New York affected 135,000 patients.. Now we know.
Survey: 18% of Health Employees Would Sell Confidential Data
Those who said they were willing to sell the data would do so for as little as between $500 and $1,000. Alexandra Wilson Pecci reports: Patients trust their healthcare providers to keep their data safe, but according to a new survey, that trust might sometimes be misplaced. The Accenture survey found that nearly one in…
Tufts Health Plan notifies 70,320 members after vendor error exposes information in envelope window
Yes, it has happened again. Protected health information exposed in an envelope window. Why do entities still use envelopes with windows? Anyway, Tufts Health Plan explains in their notification of February 16, 2018: Subject: Notice of Inadvertent Disclosure of Health Plan Information What happened? Tufts Health Plan uses a vendor to handle mailing of member…