A Tennessee-based medical imaging firm has agreed to pay $3 million in fines after seemingly doing just about everything wrong after experiencing a patient...
Tag - HHS
Over the past few years, the FDA has paid steadily more attention to potential cybersecurity holes created by medical devices. Now, health IT leaders are...
HHS says Security and Compliance Require Actions, then Policies The common-sense, scalable, and actionable cybersecurity guidance recently released by the US...
A new study by data security vendor Protenus has concluded that more than 3 million patient records were breached during the second quarter of 2018, in a sharp...
An administrative law judge has ruled that MD Anderson Cancer Center must pay $4.3 million to the HHS Office of Civil Rights due to multiple HIPAA violations...
A senior security executive with a major academic health system has told Congress that in addition to attacks by random attackers, healthcare organizations are...
Not long ago, a group of federal agencies announced the kickoff of the MyHealthEData initiative, an effort designed to give patients control of their data and...
Nobody would argue that data breaches are good for patients. After all, health data management is challenging enough without having to deal with outside...
Now here’s one for the ages – a vendor taking HHS head-on. The vendor, CIOX Health, has sued HHS in an effort to stop the agency from enforcing HIPAA rules...
Ordinarily, disputes over whose data security is better are a bit of a snoozer for me. After all, if you’re not a security expert, much of it will fly right...
