Archive for June 5th, 2018

1.13M Records Exposed by 110 Healthcare Data Breaches in Q1 2018

1.13M Records Exposed by 110 Healthcare Data Breaches in Q1 2018

This post, 1.13M Records Exposed by 110 Healthcare Data Breaches in Q1 2018, first appeared on https://healthitsecurity.com. Around 1.13 million patient records were compromised in 110 healthcare data breaches in the first quarter of 2018, according to data released May 3 in the Protenus Breach Barometer. Healthcare insiders were most likely to snoop on family members—a whopping 77.10 percent of privacy violations in the first quarter. Snooping on fellow co-workers was the second most common insider […]

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Did EMS Worker Commit HIPAA Violation With Facebook Post?

Did EMS Worker Commit HIPAA Violation With Facebook Post?

This post, Did EMS Worker Commit HIPAA Violation With Facebook Post?, first appeared on https://healthitsecurity.com. Did an emergency medical services (EMS) worker in Roane County, Tennessee, commit a HIPAA violation with a Facebook post that described the peculiar location of an emergency response—a chicken coop? The EMS worker was part of a team that responded to a call about Leon Raymond, who had suffered a heart attack in his chicken coop. “The first responders arrived and started […]

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