Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

UPMC Central Pennsylvania, a hospital that in 2021 achieved Stage 7, the top of the HIMSS Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model, has been a leader in telemedicine, with more than two dozen robust virtual care programs. "Patients are not dependent on their clinics or health systems if they offer virtual care.

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HIPAA Journal

DECEMBER 1, 2022

That was the date when the health system shut down its network, which has remained offline for more than a week. Some systems are now back online and there is now limited access to its electronic medical record system and some other clinical applications.

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HIPAA Journal

MARCH 23, 2023

Virtual Private Network (VPN) Solutions provides electronic medical record management services to healthcare providers and Associates in Dermatology used its TouchChart software to host patient data. Most of those files did not contain patient data, but VPN Solutions said some of the files could be linked to patient names.

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HIPAA Journal

MARCH 6, 2023

Cedar Park, TX-based Dental Health Management Solutions (DHMS), a provider of dental services to the government/military and private patients has recently announced – via its legal counsel – that the protected health information of certain patients was exposed in a 2021 hacking incident.

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HIPAA Journal

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

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. On November 5, 2021, the email accounts of two employees of Adelanto Healthcare Ventures (AHCV) were accessed by an unauthorized individual.

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HIPAA Journal

MARCH 30, 2022

Ransomware Attack Affects 85,282 Law Enforcement Health Benefits Members. Law Enforcement Health Benefits, Inc. LEHB) has recently announced that it was the victim of a ransomware attack that was detected on September 14, 2021.

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HIPAA Journal

JULY 5, 2022

The types of data in the files varied from individual to individual and may have included names, addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, driver’s license numbers, treatment information, and/or health insurance information. A limited number of patients also had financial account information exposed.

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HIPAA Journal

AUGUST 8, 2022

The investigation confirmed that the electronic medical record system was not affected, but files containing patients’ protected health information had been exfiltrated from its systems. Behavioral Health Group Confirms Patient Data Potentially Compromised in December 2021 Cyberattack.

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HIPAA Journal

JUNE 16, 2022

Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center has confirmed that the protected health information of 1,290,104 patients was compromised in a data breach at its electronic medical record vendor, Eye Care Leaders. 4, 2021, and disabled the affected systems within 24 hours.

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HIPAA Journal

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

HHS says the protected health information of up to 9,972 patients was stored on the compromised systems, and included names, addresses, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, driver’s license numbers, health insurance information, and medical information.

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HIPAA Journal

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

in Iowa has recently confirmed that it was affected by the data breach at the electronic medical record provider, Eye Care Leaders. The attack exposed the protected health information of 542,776 current and former Wolfe Clinic patients. Wolfe Clinic, P.C

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Compliancy Group

JUNE 29, 2022

In early December of 2021, Eye Care Leaders (Eye Care), an electronic medical record vendor supplying business associate services to eye care providers across the country, discovered it had incurred a data breach. Eye Care’s myCare Integrity solution was hacked via a ransomware attack on December 4, 2021. .

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Compliancy Group

JANUARY 6, 2022

In a post on their website, the Alpharetta, Georgia-based company admitted that an unauthorized person accessed one Ciox employee’s email account between June 24 and July 2, 2021. The breach was not discovered until September 24, 2021, and the investigative review was completed on November 2, 2021.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 18, 2023

In Europe, this is GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), in America, it’s HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act). Software developers and applications collaborating with medical institutions are also obliged to adhere to these laws.

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HIT Consultant

JULY 17, 2023

Ninety percent of US adults believe the country faces a mental health crisis, and the numbers back that up. The CDC reported 100,306 drug overdose deaths in the US in the 12 months ending in April 2021, the highest number ever recorded in 12 months and a staggering 28.5% increase from the previous year.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 15, 2023

In Europe, this is GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), in America, it’s HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act). Software developers and applications collaborating with medical institutions are also obliged to adhere to these laws.

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Healthcare Law Today

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

As of 2019 almost 95% of such persons had Medicare coverage and about half of those also had some sort of supplemental health insurance coverage. Moreover, 40% of Americans are considered medically obese. Please reach out to the authors, your Foley relationship partner, or to our Health Care Practice Group with any questions.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 5, 2021

As digital health industry stakeholders will be convening at the 2021 annual HIMSS conference in Las Vegas and digitally, this report is well-timed to give us a level-set on just “where” U.S. health citizens are with respect to their medical information. .” Patients in the U.S.

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HIPAA Journal

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Logan Health Medical Center in Kalispell, MT, has recently started notifying certain patients that hackers gained access to a file server that housed patient information in “a highly sophisticated criminal attack.”. The intrusion was limited to a single file server and its electronic medical records were not compromised.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2021

CES 2021 featured some obvious quick-pivoting products that had the pandemic written all over them, with sessions invariably speaking to the way the public health crisis impacted companies and strategic plans. Joining Peloton in connected fitness at CES 2021 was NordicTrack, which recently announced its purchase of Precor.

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Compliancy Group

JANUARY 25, 2023

In 2021, 15 percent of the breaches tracked by ITRC affected healthcare companies. Cyberattacks continued to be criminals’ weapons of choice, with 1,595 breaches in 2022, a slight decrease from 1,613 in 2021, with drops year-over-year in the number of breaches attributed to phishing, ransomware, and malware.

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AIHC

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Due to the sensitive nature of the information stored within EHRs, several security safeguards have been introduced through the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act.

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HIPAA Journal

OCTOBER 28, 2022

The information in the emails varied from patient to patient and may have included names, along with one or more of the following types of information: address, date of birth, diagnostic and treatment information, and health insurance information.

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Hall Render

APRIL 7, 2023

in 2022 Pediatric clinic will buy Kaleideum building in downtown Winston-Salem Why this Raleigh pharma just cut half its workforce Finding good health care in rural eastern N.C. claims 4th-, 5th-largest U.S. on revenue of $2.1B

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