by admin | Apr 13, 2017 | Featured, Health Data, News
By Julie-Karel Elkin “[Metro Community Provider Network] provides primary medical care, dental care, pharmacies, social work, and behavioral health care services throughout the greater Denver, Colorado metropolitan area to approximately 43,000 patients per year, a...
by admin | Apr 3, 2017 | Featured, Health Data, News
By Julie-Karel Elkin On March 24, 2017, Urology Austin sent out notification letters to nearly 289,000 patients informing them of an incident that occurred in January. As quoted by DataBreaches.net: “On January 22, 2017, Urology Austin was the victim of a ransomware...
by admin | Mar 23, 2017 | Featured, Health Data, News
By Julie-Karel Elkin Act Now: Compliance with HIPAA, HITECH and all the other rules and regulations, as irritating as they may be, is mandatory, and requirements continue to expand. Refusing to address it in a serious way can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars in...
by admin | Mar 15, 2017 | Featured, Health Data, News
By Julie-Karel Elkin To Date: 1,857 Entries on the Wall of Shame What wall of shame? The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services actually keeps a record, as required by law, of reported breaches affecting 500 or more individuals’ personal health information, and,...
by admin | Mar 8, 2017 | Featured, Health Data, News
By Julie-Karel Elkin A March 7, 2017 news blurb in TBA Today referenced an article from Michael Wyland dated February 24, 2017 from the Nonprofit Quarterly, which cited an online scam. In that article, Wyland said, “A version of this scam was responsible for the...