Risk Management
Personal information of more than 650,000 Bon Secours patients - including names, insurance identification numbers, banking information, social security numbers and some clinical data - was left exposed on the internet for four days this spring by a business associate of the hospital system.
Newkirk Products, a provider of identification cards for insurance carriers, including BlueCross BlueShield, on Friday reported a data breach that may have exposed the personal information of 3.3 million members of insurance plans.
Advocate Health Care Network will pay $5.5 million to settle with the Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights regarding multiple potential HIPAA violations that involved electronic protected health information, HHS announced.
Banner Health revealed that hackers may have accessed the healthcare, payment and health plan information of up to 3.7 million individuals.
According to researchers at the University of Michigan, the more a hospital relies on its ICU to treat heart patients, the worse their results are, especially when it comes to 30-day morbidity.
A Ukrainian hacker said he has stolen over 105,000 internal documents from Central Ohio Urology Group, based in Gahanna, Ohio. The Urology Group is touted to be the second-largest health system in the state with 24 locations.
The money comes as the number of Zika-infected patients in Miami passed 10, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a travel warning to the area, and many people are blaming Congress for not acting earlier to fund Zika work.
Georgia-based Athens Orthopedic Clinic is investigating a recent data breach in which as many as 397,000 current or former patients' information was compromised, potentially including personal medical information.
Health officials believe these are the first cases of local Zika virus transmission by mosquitoes in the continental United States.
Their findings are important because, under the health law, services that the task force assigns an "A" or "B" grade must generally be covered by health plans, including Medicare, without charging consumers anything out of pocket.