Bad enough that robbers were stealing a laptop and a cell phone from a physician, but in a unique incident, the assailants forced the physician to disclose the password and encryption keys to the encrypted data in the laptop. Even as enterprises work their way to protect their data from cyber criminals, unique incidents such…
Technological innovations over the years has paved the way for physicians and healthcare professionals to adopt mobile technology in their healthcare practices. While this has brought in positive impacts on patient care, organizational efficiency and work flow, healthcare data breaches have unfortunately become a major issue faced by large number of healthcare providers. Even as…
The aggressively competitive environment and customer demands challenges business world to adopt every new technology to be in tune with the changing technology scenario. However, simply adopting new technologies will not really give enterprises a competitive advantage. With businesses working through a digital and networked world, the emerging technologies also open up new areas of…
Yet another major data breach by leaving a folder unsecured in the infinitely connected networked world. The recent federal healthcare data breach tally reported a data breach that affected more than 307,000 patient records from an unsecured folder. This case of unsecured folder of Touchstone Medical Imaging, a provider for diagnostic imaging services leading to…
Medical information of any individual includes unique identifiers, demographic data, medical conditions, health care provider’s details, billing information as well as immediate family members’ details and medical history. The growth of technology has paved way for storage of these records in electronic formats with quick access from any location. Even as every individual approaches doctors…
Data breaches can cost healthcare entities a great deal. Proof to this is The Community Health Systems breach incident that exposed 4.5 million patients’ data in 29 states. According to a calculation at Forbes, this breach is likely to cost the entity anywhere between $75 million and $150 million. Soon after the breach was announced,…
According to figures derived from the Annual Global Advanced Threat Landscape Survey carried out by Americas at CyberArk, data breaches seem to be driving the security strategy in organizations. Interviewing a sample of 373 IT security executives and other senior management from North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific participated in this survey, in which 70 percent…
Since September 2009, the federal tally of major health breaches has grown significantly to a total of 1,074 incidents affecting 33.7 million individuals. In the last month alone, 30 incidents were added to the list. These incidents clearly reflect the wide range of risks that healthcare organizations have to battle with. Out of the recent…
OCR has been repeatedly emphasizing the need to secure health records in order to prevent data breaches. But quite alarmingly, a large number of healthcare providers are yet to implement data security policies and procedures. Health data breaches have been growing at a disturbing rate, and several recent reports and government statements indicate that it…
Health records are increasingly becoming the target of hackers worldwide. This disturbing trend has been observed through multiple incidents in the recent past, including the server breach at the Utah Department of Health two years ago, which impacted 780,000 individuals, and the incident at Montana Health Department last month, when the server was breached, impacting…
