Patrick Ouellette reports: The Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI) Privacy and Security Workgroup recently published its Breach Risk Assessment Issue Brief to offer reminders to healthcare organizations regarding the breach notification decision process. According to WEDI, organizations can use this brief as a reference used to help determine probability and requirements for breach notification. Read Patrick’s…
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Nursing Homes Are Exposed to Hacker Attacks
Rachel King reports: Computer-security researchers have discovered on a website documents that could allow hackers easily to obtain electronic medical records and payment information from health-care providers. The documents—found by two cybersecurity firms on a site commonly used by hackers—detail the type of equipment used in computer networks, the Internet addresses for computers and other…
Breaches: Avoiding Legal Woes
Marianne Kolbasuk McGee interviewed David Navetta of InformationLawGroup on how covered entities can avoid legal woes related to breaches and the significance of a recent settlement between Kaiser and the California Attorney General’s Office. You can listen to the interview on HealthcareInfoSecurity.com. It’s important for covered entities to remember that although HIPAA may allow you…
Forbes Breach Email Statistics
Total of 1,056,986 E-mail’s Found are unique. Total of 111,735 E-mail Providers 564 FORBES.COM 844 .GOV 14,572 .EDU Below is a list of all email providers that have 2 or more in the breach. (full list here) Article: https://datalossdb.org gmail.com: [407769] yahoo.com: [181617] hotmail.com: [86667] aol.com: [25032] justafou.com: [20092] asertol1.co.tv: [17472] comcast.net: [11368] live.com: [9842] xamog.com:…
California Dept. of Public Health notifies some clients of privacy breach
Under California state law, health care providers and laboratories are required to submit confidential information about many communicable and a few non-communicable health conditions to public health agencies to enable disease prevention activities. The California Department of Public Health (CDPH), California Reportable Disease Information Exchange (CalREDIE) is the system used for this disease reporting. And…
Google cloud gets on board with HIPAA
Erin McCann reports: To all the developers building applications in the cloud that need to comply with HIPAA privacy rules: You’ve just gained a big ally. Internet behemoth Google recently announced its cloud platform will now be HIPAA-friendly and will support business associate agreements going forward. Read more on Healthcare IT News.