Orleans Medical Clinic (Orleans) in Indiana has notified the Office for Civil Rights that the protected health information of 6,890 patients was compromised as a result of an upgrade to its server. Orleans is in the process of notifying the affected patients whose information was exposed. According to Orleans, when it upgraded its server, its
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Indiana Governor announces formation of Indiana Executive Council on Cybersecurity
By Linn Foster Freedman on
Posted in Cybersecurity
Indiana Governor Mike Pence announced last week the formation of the Indiana Executive Council on Cybersecurity through an Executive Order. The Council, comprised of 23 members from public and private organizations, is designed to be a public-private partnership to work together to protect the state from online threats.
In announcing the Council, the Governor stated…
UCLA cleared in lawsuit alleging breach as to sexually transmitted disease information
By Linn Foster Freedman on
Posted in Enforcement + Litigation
UCLA was absolved by a California judge last week in a suit filed by a patient of a UCLA affiliated doctor’s group, who alleged that a temporary worker in the doctor’s office used the doctor’s username and password to get into her boyfriend’s previous girlfriend’s medical record. The medical record contained information that the previous…