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Why a hospital shouldn’t put baby photos online
Matthew Fisher
Associate
Mirick, O'Connell, DeMallie & Lougee, LLP
While parents want to spread the good news of a birth, providers may unintentionally abet identity theft and run afoul of HIPAA by pairing pictures with personal information.
Malware in retirement community’s systems compromises health data
Westminster Ingleside offers credit monitoring and identity theft restoration services to patients.
Documents spilled in a parking lot result in breach notification
MidMichigan Medical Center tells about 1,900 patients to take identity protection steps.
Ransomware hits a Florida surgery center
Malware affects information about nearly 34,000 patients at St. Mark’s Surgical Center.
LA provider beats back ransomware attack
Pacific Alliance Medical Center offers identity protection services to undisclosed number of patients.
Insider theft compromises data of rehab center residents
Former worker gathered information on about 800 patients at post-acute center.
New Medicare cards start rolling out in April 2018
11 months from now, provider and payer data systems must accept the Medicare Beneficiary Identifier.
Quick action by Urology Austin thwarts ransomware attack
Incident affects information of 279,000 patients; practice offers identity protection services.
Inside theft breaches data at Med Center Health
Employee took organization’s data on 2 occasions to build an outside business.
Huge LA County cyberattack affects 756K individuals
Officials say 10 percent of employees who received a phishing email clicked on it.
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