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St. Luke’s Health Reports Third Party Data Breach

HIPAA Journal

Luke’s Health patients was present in the email accounts and could potentially have been accessed or acquired by the attackers. Luke’s Health was notified about the breach on September 1, 2022. 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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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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HITECH Compliance

AIHC

HITECH is a critical aspect of the Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act (HIPAA). HIPAA guarantees patients access to their paper medical records. Ransomware attacks are also referred to as Cy-X or Cyber extortion. Since 2009, HITECH has given “teeth” to HIPAA law.

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HITECH Compliance

AIHC

HITECH is a critical aspect of the Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act (HIPAA). HIPAA guarantees patients access to their paper medical records. Ransomware attacks are also referred to as Cy-X or Cyber extortion. Since 2009, HITECH has given “teeth” to HIPAA law.

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Health Provider News – June 3, 2022

Hall Render

Most members of Generation Z want health care providers to ask about “social determinants of health” No low-hanging fruit: Experts pitch their four big ideas for changing health care. Ransomware spurs weeks, months of IT downtime. Delaware physician group latest spine practice to suffer ransomware attack.

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Health Provider News

Hall Render

Judge denies challenge to measure that would cap LA hospital exec pay COLORADO Builders show little interest in city, hospital employee housing project Capitol Pain Institute acquires 3 Colorado practices, ASC Colorado lawmakers seek financial information from hospitals in larger debate over health care costs Colorado to advance $1.4