by HIPAAgps | Mar 21, 2019 | HIPAA News
The Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) created a summary report in March 2019 based on audits and results of penetration tests from 2016 and 2017. The summary report covered eight unnamed HHS operating divisions. During the network and...
by HIPAAgps | Mar 14, 2019 | HIPAA News
Northwestern Memorial Hospital recently found itself in hot water when a potentially volatile, internal, Protected Health Information (PHI) breach came to light. Dozens of employees were reportedly terminated for accessing the patient records of the television...
by HIPAAgps | Mar 7, 2019 | HIPAA News
With a steady increase of customers affected by data breaches in the health care sector over the past several years, Security Operation Centers (SOCs) are beginning to explore a change in tactics to compensate. While previous efforts focused primarily on preventative...
by HIPAAgps | Feb 28, 2019 | HIPAA News
Last week, a complaint filed by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) against the tech giant, Facebook Inc., was made public. The FTC stated that Facebook had allowed misleading health information disclosures. The complaint was brought before the FTC by cybersecurity...
by HIPAAgps | Feb 21, 2019 | HIPAA News
The first question that many people ask when they enter your establishment tends to be “what is your Wi-Fi password?” With mobile technology, we are constantly connected, and Wi-Fi is one of the primary mediums for that connection. The Weakest Link Wi-Fi is one of the...
by HIPAAgps | Feb 14, 2019 | HIPAA News
The California-based Cottage Health system has been ordered to pay $3 million in fees after the Office for Civil Rights’ (OCR) Health and Human Services (HHS) department uncovered a pair of significant HIPAA violations. The first breach occurred in 2013 when it was...
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