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Protected Health Information Exposed in 5 Recent Hacking Incidents

HIPAA Journal

Florida Medical Clinic, NorthStar Emergency Medical Services, Denver Public Schools, Wichita Urology Group, and The Bone & Joint Clinic have recently reported hacking incidents and the exposure and potential theft of protected health information. 95% of the compromised files only included an individual’s name.

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Tift Regional Medical Center Patients Notified About August 2022 Cyberattack

HIPAA Journal

Tift Regional Medical Center in Georgia has started notifying 180,142 patients that their personal and protected health information was compromised in a cyberattack that was detected on or around August 16, 2022. million for hardware, software, incident response, and consulting services in response to the Royal ransomware attack.

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St. Luke’s Health Reports Third Party Data Breach

HIPAA Journal

Luke’s Health has recently notified 16,906 patients that some of their protected health information has been exposed in a security incident at a vendor that provides consulting services. Luke’s Health is currently recovering from a ransomware attack on its parent company, CommonSpirit Health, that occurred more than a month ago.

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Security Breaches in Healthcare in 2023

HIPAA Journal

When that deadline is near and breached organizations have not yet completed their document reviews to find out how many individuals have had their protected health information (PHI) exposed, breaches are reported to OCR using a placeholder of 500 or 501 records.

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HITECH Compliance

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Checklist for Individual & Small Group Practices Written by: Nancie Lee Cummins, CFE, CHA, CIFHA, OHCC, CHCM, CHCO, CORCM This article provides an overview of Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH) and basic checklist of policies and procedures for compliance of smaller health care organizations.

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HITECH Compliance

AIHC

Checklist for Individual & Small Group Practices Written by: Nancie Lee Cummins, CFE, CHA, CIFHA, OHCC, CHCM, CHCO, CORCM This article provides an overview of Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH) and basic checklist of policies and procedures for compliance of smaller health care organizations.

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Health Provider News

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