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Security Breaches in Healthcare in 2023

HIPAA Journal

Report: Security Breaches in Healthcare (Direct Download PDF, 1.9MB, 16 pages) An unwanted record was set in 2023 with 725 large security breaches in healthcare reported to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR), beating the record of 720 healthcare security breaches set the previous year.

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HITECH Compliance

AIHC

HIPAA guarantees patients access to their paper medical records. Ransomware attacks are also referred to as Cy-X or Cyber extortion. Are there internal office policies regarding no downloading from unknown web pages? Since 2009, HITECH has given “teeth” to HIPAA law. What’s the difference between HIPAA and HITECH?

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HITECH Compliance

AIHC

HIPAA guarantees patients access to their paper medical records. Ransomware attacks are also referred to as Cy-X or Cyber extortion. Are there internal office policies regarding no downloading from unknown web pages? Since 2009, HITECH has given “teeth” to HIPAA law. What’s the difference between HIPAA and HITECH?