Leveraging Knowledge to Manage Your Data Risks
On April 22, 2015, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) entered into its first HIPAA violation settlement in 2015. The settlement requires Cornell Prescription Pharmacy, a small pharmacy located in the Denver area to pay the OCR $125,000 and adopt a corrective action plan to implement policies and procedures and train employees on HIPAA.
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Reports of security breaches involving health care information have become increasingly prevalent in recent years, and such breaches seem to be continually growing in scope and magnitude. In the April 14, 2015, issue of JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association, three California researchers led by Dr. Vincent Liu (hereinafter Liu et al.)…
Late last week, Partners HealthCare announced that it notified approximately 3,300 patients of a security breach involving a hacking incident where intruders accessed medical and personal information of patients.
Partners acknowledged that the hackers were able to infiltrate the security of its system through phishing e–mails that employees opened, exposing their e-mail accounts…
