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Eye Care Leaders Breach: Ransomware Attack Claims New Victims

Compliancy Group

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. Download the free cybersecurity eBook to get tips on protecting your patient information.

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Addressing Point-of-Care Ultrasound’s Shadow IT Problem

HIT Consultant

According to an IoT threat report issued by Unit 42, 83 percent of medical imaging devices are running on unsupported operating systems. For example, a physician might start consolidating information and clinical notes in Excel, perhaps even downloading that information to a flash drive to take home after work.

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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?