Category: databreach

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The West Virginia Continuing Legal Education Section of WVU College of Law will be sponsoring Health Care Law 2011 Seminar on May 20, 2011, in Charleston, West Virginia at WVU Medical Center - CAMC.
The Health Care Law 2011 Seminar will cover a variety of topics of interest to West Virginia health care […]

whcchealthinnovations
HealthLeaders reports that the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) is seeking an additional $5.6 million in its Fiscal Year 2012 budget proposal to fund its HIPAA compliance and enforcement activities.
The article also details the most current reported numbers on breaches reported to OCR. As of March 16 there have been 249 entities that […]

John Goodman
Members of the U.S. House of Representative submitted an October 1, 2009 letter of concern to Secretary Sebelius and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) concerning inclusion of a “harm standard” in the recently released(August 24, 2009) Interim Final Rule - Breach Notification for Unsecured Protected Health Information (45 CFR […]

John Goodman
Have you had a health data security breach? Do you know what a health data breach is? Are you required to notify individuals impacted by the breach? Do you have to notify federal agencies of such breach?
Read on for more information regarding the Office for Civil Right (OCR) and Federal Trade Commission […]

jingemi
Virginia Department of Health Professions has issued a News Release regarding the potential breach of security for the Prescription Monitoring Program. The statement also indicates that there is an ongoing criminal investigation into the breach which occurred on April 30.
Also, the Virginia Department of Health Professions has issued a related Questions and Answers […]

jingemi
Information Week is covering a story involving an extortion letter sent last week to the Virginia Department of Health Professions seeking $10M to return more than 8M patient records and 35M prescriptions allegedly stolen from the Virginia Department of Health Professions.
The extortion demand was posted on WikiLeaks. The WikiLeaks website states:
May 3, 2009Summary
On […]

jingemi
Information Week is covering a story involving an extortion letter sent last week to the Virginia Department of Health Professionals seeking $10M to return more than 8M patient records and 35M prescriptions allegedly stolen from the Virginia Department of Health Professionals.
The extortion demand was posted on WikiLeaks. The WikiLeaks website states:
May 3, 2009
Summary
On […]

jingemi
On April 17, 2009, the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) issued guidance on the technology requirements to render protected health information (PHI) “unusable, unreadable or indecipherable to unauthorized individuals, as required by the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH) which is a part of the American […]

Jaan Sidorov
Yesterday, April 16, 2009, the Federal Trade Commission released its proposed Health Breach Notification Rule for Vendors of Personal Health Records (PHRs) and Electronic Health Information.
The official title of the proposed rule is: 16. C.F.R. Part 318: Notice of Proposed Rulemaking and Request for Public Comments Concerning Proposed Health Breach Notification Rule, […]

David Harlow
The a href=”http://blogs.wsj.com/health/2008/11/07/express-scripts-data-breach-leads-to-extortion-attempt/”WSJ Health Blogs reports/a about a potential data breach at a href=”http://www.express-scripts.com/”Express Scripts/a, one of the largest pharmacy benefit management companies in North America. More from Express Scripts on the a href=”http://www.esisupports.com/the-facts/”Facts/a, a href=”http://www.esisupports.com/frequently-asked-questions/”FAQs/a and a href=”http://www.esisupports.com/resource-center/”Other Resources/a.br /br /The potential data breach came to Express Scripts attention after having […]