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Cyber Insurance Will Not Make Up For Your Sins

Columbia Casualty paid Cottage Health System a little over $4 million after a breach in December 2013.  Columbia wants their $4 million back, plus attorney’s fees and expenses because, they say, Cottage “did not follow minimum required practices for protecting information and did not truthfully attest to its security controls” (see article). Here is more […]

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Dentists (and Doctors) A Target For Cyber Criminals

DentistryIQ, a web site for dental professionals ran a piece last week talking about dentists (and while the article didn’t talk about it, doctors as well) being a target for cyber criminals (see article). If you think about it, it makes a lot of sense.  Think about all the non public personal information that a […]

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Why Healthcare Providers Need To Have An Effective Cyber Security Program

The Anchorage Community Mental Health Services (ACMHS) just agreed to pay a $150,000 fine after a 2012 breach of approximately 2,500 patients protected Health Information (PHI) due to malware on their healthcare software system according to Healthcare IT News. Apparently ACMHS had adopted the sample Security Rule policies in 2005 but didn’t bother to follow […]

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