Brooklyn Hospital Center, a member hospital of the NewYork-Presbyterian Healthcare System, posted this notice on their website, linked from their home page: Notice of Disclosure of Patient Information On December 2, 2013, a backpack belonging to a medical resident was stolen while the doctor was on The Brooklyn Hospital Center property. The backpack contained a USB…
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Two Defendants Sentenced In Stolen Identity Tax Refund Scheme Relating To A Health Care Provider
Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and José A. Gonzalez, Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI), announced that Angelo Ponds, 32, of Miami Gardens, and Sean Guillaume, 31, of Miramar, were sentenced February 21 for their participation in a stolen identity tax refund scheme relating to a…
What You Need to Know About Patient Matching and Your Privacy and What You Can Do About It
Adrian Gropper, MD is Chief Technical Officer of Patient Privacy Rights. He writes: Today, ONC released a report on patient matching practices and to the casual reader it will look like a byzantine subject. It’s not. You should care about patient matching, and you will. It impacts your ability to coordinate care, purchase life and disability insurance, and…
SANS "Health Care Cyberthreat Report"
Virtually all software, applications, systems and devices are now connected to the Internet. This is a reality that cybercriminals recognize and are actively exploiting. Some 94 percent of medical institutions said their organizations have been victims of a cyber attack, according to the Ponemon Institute. Now, with the push to digitize all health care records, the emergence of…
Department of Veterans Affairs was warned privacy breach was practically unavoidable
Joe Camp reports that the I-Team kept digging into the recent eBenefits breach, and came across an interesting document: The I-Team has uncovered documents revealing the Department of Veterans Affairs was warned that a privacy breach, like the one ABC11 exposed last month, was “practically unavoidable because of problems with the VA’s information technology system.”…
Electronic Health Data Breaches Remain Primary Concern Despite Increased Use of Security Technologies and Analytics – Survey
From HIMSS: Results of the 2013 HIMSS Security Survey show that, despite progress toward hardened security and use of analytics, more work must be done to mitigate insider threat, such as the inappropriate access of data by employees. Although federal initiatives such as OCR audits, Meaningful Use and the HIPAA Omnibus Rule continue to encourage healthcare organizations…