Evan Brown discusses an interesting court case, Hardin v. PDX, Inc.,: Cases dealing with the Communications Decency Act often involve websites. See, for example, the recent decision from the Sixth Circuit involving thedirty.com, and earlier cases about Roommates.com and Amazon. But this case considered a sort of unique suggested application of Section 230 immunity. The question was whether a provider…
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Healthcare Dives Into Big Data
Alison Diana reports: With the mandated adoption of electronic health records (EHRs), many healthcare professionals for the first time got centralized access to patient records. Now they’re figuring out how to use all this information. Although the healthcare industry has been slow to delve into big data, that might be about to change. At stake:…
AHIMA offers data breach toolkit to healthcare providers and suits their action to their advice
Over on HealthITSecurity.com, Patrick Ouellette notes that American Health Information Management Association’s (AHIMA) recently published a Breach Management Toolkit. The tool requires an AHIMA membership, but the Journal of AHIMA detailed what the tool has to offer providers and a sample of required elements within a data breach notification letter. Patrick reports that the toolkit discusses five critical pieces of…
Tax Fraud Gang Targeted Healthcare Firms
Brian Krebs reports: Earlier this month, I wrote about an organized cybercrime gang that has been hacking into HR departments at organizations across the country and filing fraudulent tax refund requests with the IRS on employees of those victim firms. Today, we’ll look a bit closer at the activities of this crime gang, which appears to have targeted a…
TX: Computer containing patient data stolen from Seton Healthcare
MyFoxAustin reports: A computer-like device was stolen from Seton Northwest Hospital. Now two months later, nearly 180 patients possibly affected are just finding out. One of them came to FOX 7 for help. It was inside a locked storage area at Seton Northwest Hospital where a device was stolen. We’re told only names, dates of…
FBI warns healthcare sector vulnerable to cyber attacks
Jim Finkle reports: The FBI has warned healthcare providers their cybersecurity systems are lax compared to other sectors, making them vulnerable to attacks by hackers searching for Americans’ personal medical records and health insurance data. Health data is far more valuable to hackers on the black market than credit card numbers because it tends to…