The Utah Department of Technology Services (DTS) notified the Utah Department of Health (UDOH) of an information breach on a DTS server that houses Medicaid claims this week. The initial breach appears to have taken place on Friday, March 30. During the breach, information was accessed from approximately 24,000 claims.
Washington, D.C.-based Howard University Hospital has sent a letter to 34,503 patients informing them of a potential disclosure of protected health information that occurred in late January.
Organizations pursuing meaningful use incentive dollars must meet a myriad of requirements including the security risk analysis. This session covers a framework for conducting yearly security risk analysis/assessments.
The majority of health organizations are underprepared to protect patient privacy and secure data as new uses for digital health information emerge and access to confidential patient information expands, according to a report released by the Health Research Institute at PriceWaterhousCoopers (PwC).
In U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ annual report to Congress, Secretary Kathleen Sebelius reported that between Jan. 1, 2010, and Dec. 31, 2010, breaches involving 500 or more individuals were less than 1 percent of the breaches reported, but accounted for more than 99 percent of the more than 5.4 million individuals who were affected.
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) has announced its "Summer Concert" series highlighting development work on distributed population queries.
Proposed changes to HIPAA establish standards that would be difficult for providers to meet and should be scaled back, according to comments filed July 22 by the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME).
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center is notifying more than 2,000 patients of a potential breach of protected health information (PHI) that resulted from a vendor's failure to restore security controls following routine maintenance.
Hurley Medical Center, of Flint, Mich., has reported that a laptop computer went missing from the hospital’s pulmonary unit in mid-May. The computer’s hard drive contained 1,938 patients’ birth dates, heights, weights, pulmonary test results and other medical details over a four-year period, according to a July 6 press release on the medical center's website.
The University of California at Los Angeles Health System (UCLAHS) has agreed to settle potential violations of HIPAA privacy and security rules for $865,500 following an investigation by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR). UCLAHS must also implement a corrective action plan aimed at remedying gaps in its compliance with the rules.
The Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Civil Rights has launched a notice of proposed rulemaking to modify the HIPAA Privacy Rule’s standard for accounting of disclosures of protected health information (PHI) and electronic PHI.
