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Patient Data
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Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider
Employee’s Wife Pleads Guilty to Charges After He Stole Patient Information
The Manhattan District Attorney announced this week that a former employee of Lenox Hill Hospital’s wife plead guilty to grand larceny, identity theft in the first degree, and criminal possession…
Covington Digital Health
UK Government Considering New Patient Data Security and Research Consent Standards, Sanctions
By Covington Digital Health Team
The UK Government has opened a consultation, running until September 7, 2016, regarding how UK National Health Service (NHS) patient data should be safeguarded, and how it could be used…
Inside Privacy
FDA Releases Draft Guidance on Dissemination of Patient-Specific Information by Device Manufacturers
Last month, the FDA released a draft guidance document on the sharing of patient-specific data associated with medical devices, including information recorded, stored, processed, retrieved, and/or derived from the device. …
Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider
Massachusetts General Hospital vendor Patterson Dental Supply reports breach of 4,300 patient records
Patterson Dental Supply, Massachusetts General Hospital’s (MGH) vendor that provides software to the hospital to manage dental practice information, has reportedly admitted that approximately 4,300 of MGH’s patient records have…
HIPAA & Health Information Technology
Tips on Avoiding HIPAA Breaches for Patient-Employee Records
Our partner Elizabeth Litten and I were featured again by our good friend Marla Durben Hirsch in her article in the April 2016 issue of Medical Practice Compliance Alert entitled…
The Northwest Policyholder
Chalk Up a Cyber-Coverage Win for the Policyholder
On April 11, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the decision of a Virginia federal district court that held that Travelers was required to provide a defense under a…
Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider
21st Century Oncology faces second class action suit for data breach of 2.2M records
We previously reported that 21st Century Oncology (21st Century) experienced a data breach of up to 2.2 million patient records that compromised the names, Social Security numbers and health and…
Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider
21st Century Oncology notifies 2.2 million of data breach
In the continuing saga of health care entities being targeted by hackers, 21st Century Oncology (21st Century) located in Fort Meyers, Florida, late last week began notifying up to 2.2…
Data Counsel
Protecting Patient Data From Hacker Ransom Demands
Forty bitcoins later (approximately $17,000), Hollywood Presbyterian Hospital can now access its electronic medical health records and return to treating its patients as scheduled. But as hackers develop new tools…
Data Counsel
SAMHSA Proposes Updates to Substance Abuse Records Security and Confidentiality Regulation
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) has released proposed changes to the Confidentiality of Alcohol and Drug Abuse Patient…