HIPAA Journal

MARCH 24, 2022

Chelan Douglas Health District in East Wenatchee, WA, has announced it was the victim of a cyberattack in July 2021 in which the personal and protected health information of patients was exfiltrated from its systems. A representative for the health district said this was not a ransomware attack.

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Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

traditional privacy laws, like the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), were conceived for a bygone era of paper records and siloed databases, before neural data came into the picture. Current privacy regimes assume a clear demarcation between data that is personal (e.g., genetic markers). In the U.S.,

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HIPAA Journal

MAY 16, 2022

According to the April 29, 2022, notification on the healthcare provider’s website, “We recently discovered unauthorized access to our network occurred between May 31, 2021, and June 1, 2021.” The post Refuah Health Center Alerts 260K Patients About May 2021 Cyberattack appeared first on HIPAA Journal.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 25, 2023

What You Should Know: – Angle Health, a digital first health insurance carrier raises $58M in Series A funding, making health insurance more convenient, approachable, and affordable for employers and members.

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HIPAA Journal

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Comprehensive Health Services explained in its breach notification letter to the Maine Attorney general that it determined on November 3, 2021, that the personal information of a limited number of individuals employed by one of its customers may have been accessed and stolen in the attack.

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HIPAA Journal

FEBRUARY 12, 2022

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act’s (HIPAA) Breach Notification Rule places a strict time limit on issuing notifications to individuals whose protected health information has been exposed or impermissibly disclosed. on March 1, 2022.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 9, 2021

At the same time, people took on their own versions of digital transformation at home, for work, for school, for cooking, shopping, and indeed, for health care. As the report concludes, “people’s sentiments and behaviors” with respect to technology in health care “provide no clear answer.”

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HIPAA Journal

AUGUST 3, 2022

PracticeMax said it identified suspicious activity within its network on May 1, 2021, and confirmed that ransomware was installed on its network. The two health insurance firms confirmed they had been affected in late February 2022, with PracticeMax publicly reporting the breach in the fall of 2021.

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HIPAA Journal

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The American Civil Liberties Union of Rhode Island (ACLU of RI) is taking legal action against the Rhode Island Public Transit Authority (RIPTA) and UnitedHealthcare New England (UHC) over an August 2021 data breach that affected more than 22,000 individuals.

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Bill of Health

JANUARY 26, 2022

Incarcerated individuals need health care, but punitive policies make securing access to care particularly difficult among this population, which numbers about 2.1 million as of 2021. As a first step to protecting incarcerated individuals’ right to health, Congress should repeal the Medicaid Inmate Exclusion Policy (MIEP).

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HIPAA Journal

MARCH 11, 2022

Protenus has released its 2022 Breach Barometer Report which confirms 2021 was a particularly bad year for healthcare industry data breaches, with more than 50 million healthcare records exposed or compromised in 2021. There were 111 insider incidents in 2021, similar to the 110 incidents in 2019, which is a 26% decrease from 2020.

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Health Populi

JUNE 24, 2020

Whether healthcare spending in 2021 increases by double-digits or falls by one-third directly depends on how the coronavirus pandemic will play out over the rest of 2020, based on PwC’s annual report on medical cost trends for 2021. In 2021, spending would return to pre-COVID projections. Patients Forgo Care Until 2021.”

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Jane Sarashon

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

While consumers’ satisfaction with inpatient care experiences improved a few points over the past year, health insurance and hospitals still fall in the bottom-third of all industries with which people interact, according to the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) Insurance and Health Care Study 2021-2022.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Before joining BCGDV, they practised as medical doctors or worked in industries such as health insurance, medtech or pharma”, the company spokesperson informed Healthcare IT News. Looking back at 2021, the report notes a high demand for virtual mental health consultations. ” THE LARGER TREND.

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Center for Health Insurance Reform

JULY 11, 2022

Congress has spent months debating an extension of enhanced premium tax credits enacted under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021. However, as CHIR's Sabrina Corlette and the Urban Institute's Jason Levitis discuss in this recent Health Affairs Forefront article, the clock is ticking.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Before joining BCGDV, they practised as medical doctors or worked in industries such as health insurance, medtech or pharma”, the company spokesperson informed Healthcare IT News. Looking back at 2021, the report notes a high demand for virtual mental health consultations. ” THE LARGER TREND.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

According to the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF), the average annual premium for employer-sponsored health coverage in 2023 was $8,431 for single coverage and $23,968 for family coverage. 2023 saw a 7% increase from the previous year; however, costs between 2021 and 2022 did not increase. Coverage is becoming unaffordable for many.

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Compliancy Group

JANUARY 25, 2022

With at least six weeks before final numbers are in, the Department of Health and Human Services HIPAA Breach Reporting Tool website is reporting 713 major healthcare data breaches in 2021, an increase of more than 7.5 By the Numbers: Major Healthcare Data Breaches Increase in 2021. million records in 2021.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Now that 2021 has arrived, a national election recently completed, and significant changes to the healthcare landscape in America continuing to unfold amidst a pandemic, the time for health data preparation is here. The following is a guest article by Matt Peterson, Executive VP, Client Success and Growth, at Ciox.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

UPMC Central Pennsylvania, a hospital that in 2021 achieved Stage 7, the top of the HIMSS Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model, has been a leader in telemedicine, with more than two dozen robust virtual care programs. "Patients are not dependent on their clinics or health systems if they offer virtual care.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

More than 110 executives from more than 100 organizations, including community hospitals, health systems, pediatric hospitals, academic medical centers, rehabilitation hospitals, and rural providers, responded to the survey.

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HIPAA Journal

MARCH 15, 2023

FHKC is a state-created entity that offers health and dental insurance to children in Florida between the ages of 5 and 18. FHKC receives Medicaid funds and state funds for providing health insurance programs for children in Florida.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

The DiGA initiative is part of the 2019 Digital Healthcare Act (DVG) that sets the legal framework for doctors to prescribe DiGAs to the 73 million citizens insured with a statutory health insurer that reimburses their use, and has been recognised as a pioneering approach globally.

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Health Populi

JUNE 18, 2021

with employer-sponsored health insurance worry that a major health event in their household could lead to bankruptcy, according to research gathered by West Health and Gallup in Business Speaks: The Future of Employer-Sponsored Insurance. Gallup-West Health surveyed 3,870 U.S. One in two people in the U.S.

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HIPAA Journal

MARCH 10, 2022

Bako Diagnostics (BakoDx), a Georgia-based provider of laboratory services to healthcare providers, has announced it was the victim of a cyberattack that was discovered on December 28, 2021. The files exfiltrated from its systems included the protected health information of patients.

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Electronic Health Reporter

JANUARY 15, 2021

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. And in 2021, the focus on compliance is expected to increase. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) affects thousands of organizations across the […]. Illegal copying is prohibited.

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HIPAA Journal

MARCH 11, 2025

A settlement has been agreed to resolve a lawsuit against the Rhode Island Public Transit Authority (RIPTA) and UnitedHealthcare New England (UHC) over a 2021 ransomware attack. RIPTA announced the data breach on December 23, 2021.The

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HIPAA Journal

MARCH 14, 2022

Capital Region Medical Center (CRMC) in Jefferson City, MO has recently confirmed patient information was accessed by unauthorized individuals in a December 2021 cyberattack that took its network and phone systems offline for several days. The attack was detected on December 17, 2021, when network systems were disrupted.

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Health Populi

MARCH 4, 2021

In 2021, patients-as-health-consumers seek lower health care and prescription drug costs coupled with higher quality care, discovered by the patient advocacy coalition, Consumers for Quality Care. 90% conducted research into health care costs. 59% chose their health care provider based on cost. population).

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HIPAA Journal

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Logan Health Medical Center in Kalispell, MT, has recently started notifying certain patients that hackers gained access to a file server that housed patient information in “a highly sophisticated criminal attack.”. NHS Management Alerts Patients About May 2021 Cyberattack.

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HIPAA Journal

MARCH 9, 2022

The Birmingham, AL-based multi-specialty clinic, Norwood Clinic, has recently started notifying 228,103 individuals that some of their protected health information was accessed in a cyberattack that was detected on October 22, 2021. The review was concluded on February 2, 2022, and affected customers were updated on February 14, 2022.

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HIPAA Journal

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Chicago’s South Shore Hospital has started notifying 115,670 current and former patients about a December 2021 cyberattack on its network. Suspicious activity was identified on its network on December 10, 2021, and prompt action was taken to contain the incident.

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HIPAA Journal

MARCH 25, 2022

The forensic investigation revealed the email accounts were accessed by unauthorized individuals between April 7, 2021, and June 2, 2021. AHA provided notice about the attack on January 6, 2021. UMC was a victim of a REvil ransomware attack in June 2021 that resulted in the theft of the protected health information of 1.3

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HIPAA Journal

MARCH 11, 2022

Legal action is being taken against Logan Health and subsidiary, sister, and related entities of Logan Health over a data breach that occurred in 2021 and affected 213,543 Logan Health Medical Center patients. The lawsuit points out that data breach was one of several to have affected Logan Health.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 23, 2024

In 2021, investments in telehealth companies surpassed $29.1 The doctors will review the information before saving it in electronic medical records (EMRs) and transferring it to other digital health systems, i.e., e-pharmacy or digital health insurance.

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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 9, 2021

As a result, the opportunities that exist for health IT companies are massive. billion globally from 2020 through October 2021. To get an idea of what this future may hold, Healthcare IT News interviewed Sebastian Seiguer, CEO of the Johns Hopkins-backed health IT company emocha Health.

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Compliancy Group

JANUARY 24, 2025

A clear understanding of health information breaches is necessary to comply with regulations like the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). In 2021 and 2022, 45.9 Its not just the number of healthcare data breaches that cause concern. million records, respectively, were breached.

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