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Keep up to date on industry newsLawsuit against Sharp Grossmont Hospital for secretly recording patients having gynecology operations
Sharp Healthcare and Sharp Grossmont are both facing legal action from outraged patients alleging that they secretly recorded female patients during gynecological examinations. The plaintiffs are seeking compensation for videos that were taken without their consent...
Study Finds Health Care Sector Least Likely to use Encryption
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…
HIPAA Compliance Review Set to Launch in April Assessing Randomly Selected Health Care Organizations; Could Your Organization Be at Risk?
The Department of Health and Human Services’ Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services 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 health care transactions…
Ransomware Attack Forces Health Care Clinic to Close Permanently; Patient Files Deleted
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…
Number of Health Care Breaches Continue to Increase
Protenus’s 2019 Breach Barometer Report revealed that from 2017 to 2018 there was only a slight increase in the total number of data breaches annually…
Federal Government Seeks to Pass IoT Security Standards Legislation… Again
While the issue of Internet of Things (IoT) device security has been raised before, this would mark the third attempt that congress would have made to pass a bill of its kind…
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