Health care providers and contractors continue to be a popular target for hackers. Recently, CHSPSC LLC (CHSPSC), which provides various services to hospitals and clinics indirectly owned by Community Health Systems, Inc. of Tennessee, agreed to pay $2,300,000 to the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) in settlement of potential violations of HIPAA’s Privacy and Security Rules. The OCR investigation and settlement stemmed from a data breach affecting over six million people.
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Health Care Providers Continue to Be Hit with Ransomware and Phishing
By Linn Foster Freedman on
Posted in Privacy and Security
It doesn’t matter in which state you are located, how many patients you treat, what kind of medicine you practice or how many employees you have, if you are a health care provider, you are being targeted and hackers are successful in victimizing you.
That’s my take on the recent Becker’s Health IT article that…
Health Care Organizations Have Highest Costs for Data Breaches
By Guest Contributor on
Posted in Privacy and Security
As readers of this blog know, data breaches in the health care industry are all too common. Health care organizations are an attractive target for hackers because of the nature and amount of personal information that they possess.
Therefore, it is perhaps not surprising that healthcare organizations have the highest costs associated with data breaches.…
W2 Phishing Scam Hits Citizens Memorial Hospital
By Linn Foster Freedman on
Posted in Hospitals and Health Systems, Privacy and Security
We continue to see all industries hit with W2 phishing scams, including the health care industry.
Citizens Memorial Hospital, located in Bolivar, Missouri, was hit with the scam when one of its employees believed that an email received from another employee was legitimate, and sent the W2s of its employees from 2016 to a hacker.…