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Further healthcare organizations have confirmed they have been affected by a data breach at Magellan Health National Imaging Associates, a business associate of several HIPAA-covered entities that provides managed pharmacy…

The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has imposed a $1,600,000 civil money penalty against the Texas Health and Human Services…

A former worker at a Berks County nursing home was arrested after she allegedly took photos of deceased residents and then sent them to her friends and co-workers.

The University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC) has agreed to pay $3 million to the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS),…

ONC and the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) are proud to announce the release of version 3.1 of the Security Risk Assessment (SRA) Tool. First released in 2014, the SRA…

The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has imposed a civil money penalty of $2,154,000 against Jackson Health System (JHS) for violations…

Kalispell Regional Healthcare (KRH) is mailing letters to nearly 130,000 patients whose personal information may have been involved in a data breach over the summer.

For several years, industry stakeholders have been making the case for a unique patient identifier to improve patient safety through the correct identification of individuals at the point of care.

After reviewing hundreds of millions of malicious emails from the past two years, healthcare security firm Proofpoint has gained some hard-won insights into the tricks and strategies of bad who…

A public-data tool built by the Philadelphia Department of Public Health to track the prevalence of hepatitis infections left individuals’ health records accessible, compromising the names, addresses, Social Security numbers,…