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Feds to Increase Audits Of Doctors’ Protection Of Your Information

The Inspector General in the Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (OIG, HHS OCR) reported that OCR is not effectively auditing HIPAA covered entities.  A covered entity includes doctors and hospitals that have primary ownership of your health records.  As a result, the OCR is establishing a permanent audit program and working to identity […]

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MBA Panel Discusses Third Party Risk Issues

According to HousingWire, a panel at the Mortgage Bankers Association mortgage servicing conference discussed cyber risks and one seems to have the attention of regulators is risk introduced by vendors.  All you have to do is think back to Target, Home Depot and the Office of Personnel Management (collectively around 200 million compromised records).  The […]

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Los Angeles Hospital Pays Ransomware To Recover Systems

Computer systems at the almost 100 year old Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center  in Los Angeles were down for over a week due to being hacked. The story started about ten days ago when users at the teaching hospital associated USC began having problems accessing the electronic health record system at the Hospital.  They could not access […]

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