by HIPAAgps | Apr 25, 2019 | HIPAA News
A study conducted by Ponemon Institute in 2018, which included almost 6,000 people across various industries and 12 countries, found that health care information was ranked surprisingly low in encryption percentages when compared to other common industry sectors. Data...
by HIPAAgps | Apr 18, 2019 | HIPAA News
The Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is set to launch a review program in April 2019, to ascertain whether HIPAA covered entities are in compliance with Administrative Simplification rules for electronic...
by HIPAAgps | Apr 11, 2019 | HIPAA News
Brookside ENT and Hearing Center, a private practice based out of Battle Creek, Michigan, has been forced to permanently close its doors after becoming the target of a vicious ransomware attack. The owners, Williams Scalf, MD, and John Bizon, MD, found that the...
by HIPAAgps | Apr 4, 2019 | HIPAA News
Over the past few years, some positive and negative trends have emerged in the cyber-security industry. Using information from DataBreaches.net, a breach tracker, a healthcare compliance company, Protenus, tracked 2018 trends in health care data-breaches. Upon...
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