Breached Healthcare Records Tripled in 2018

There was at least one health data breach a day and 503 health data breaches overall in 2018 according to analysis released this week.

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Handling Patient-Generated Health Data Securely

Patient-generated health data is being used more and more by physicians - while it can help supplement clinical data, PGHD isn't without its own data privacy and security concerns.

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12-State Lawsuit Alleges Medical Firm Violated HIPAA

The company not only failed to encrypt electronic protected health information but failed to maintain a security monitoring system that could have flagged supicious and anomalous activity.

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Practice Settles With HHS Following PHI Disclosure

A Connecticut-based allergy practice agreed to pay $125,000 this week to settle the disclosure of patient information to a reporter.

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More PHI Breaches Caused by Providers, Insiders, Report Says

More Protected health information (PHI) is leaked by healthcare providers, not hackers, academic research by Michigan State University and Johns Hopkins University released Monday says.

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Former Employee Accessed Medical Records For Nearly a Year

A hospital in upstate New York said it recently discovered a former employee inappropriately accessed patient medical records from 2016 to 2017.

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ePHI of 8,000 Patients Exposed in Health Plan Breach

A Texas health plan said an email error resulted in exposed the electronic protected health information of over 8,000 patients.

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Healthcare Data Breaches Up 70 Percent Since 2010

Research recently carried out by the Center for Quantitative Health at Massachusetts General Hospital found there have been 2,149 healthcare breaches, impacting 176.4 million patient records, since 2010.

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FDA Urges Data Security, Controls When Using EHR in Clinical Trials

The Food and Drug Administration issued new guidance on electronic health record data security this week that encourages employing privacy and security controls when performing clinical trials.

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Phishing Attacks at Hospice Expose PHI, PII

A hospice in Tennessee didn't realize until months after suffering a phishing attack that it may have resulted in the access of sensitive protected health information.

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