Companies doing business in the state of Oregon should now abide by the latest data infringement law that became effective on January 1, 2016. If a data infringement is suffered that reveals the personal information of over 250 state residents, an infringement notice should be presented to the Oregon Attorney General. On June 10 previous … Read more
Roughly 3 months after suffering an infringement of personal information, Washington Town Health Care District has tendered an infringement notification to the California Attorney General’s Office describing an infringement of personal information of Californians. The information infringement was found out on October 8, 2015, and included the possible opening of a Washington Community Health Resource … Read more
A study of break details for the duration of the initial 5 months of the year demonstrates that the main reason of 2015 HIPAA breaks is still hacking, which keep on to reveal patient health files in the millions. The huge data break at Anthem Inc., revealed 78.8 million member files, however, the HIPAA breach at Premera … Read more
Hackers have accessed the E-mail accounts of a lot of workers of the St. Mary’s Medical Center in Evansville, Indiana, leading in the PHI of roughly 4,400 patients potentially being revealed. Randy Capehart, a spokesperson for St. Mary’s Medical Center, released a statement declaring the HIPAA break to the media. In the statement, he described … Read more
Milwaukee centered healthcare provider, Froedtert Health, has declared it has experienced a data violation that may possibly have impacted as many as 43,000 patients as a consequence of a computer virus that had contaminated an employee’s Computer. Froedtert Health runs a 3-hospital system consisting of the St. Joseph’s Hospital in West Bend, Froedtert Hospital in … Read more