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1. Paubox continues to lead in G2 Grid® Report for Summer 2023
Building on its momentum from the start of the year, Paubox continues to lead in the G2 Summer 2023 Report.
Why it matters: Paubox earned 156 G2 badges from the Summer 2023 report and ranked #1 in categories like email encryption, email security and HIPAA compliant messaging.
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2. Hospital security guards' snooping in medical records leads to $240,000 HIPAA settlement
Security guards from Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital in Washington accessed the medical records of 419 individuals which resulted in a $240,000 settlement.
What they're saying: Health care organizations must ensure that workforce members can only access the patient information needed to do their jobs," said OCR Director Melanie Fontes Rainer.
Hospital will be monitored for two years
3. Rural Illinois hospitals set to close after ransomware attack
St. Margaret’s Health, Illinois, announced they were permanently closing amid financial troubles caused in part by a ransomware attack.
What happened: The attack occurred in 2021, halting the hospital’s ability to submit claims to insurers, Medicaid, or Medicare for months.
Critical systems were down for more than 14 weeks
4. ChatGPT account breaches raise privacy concerns in healthcare
Group-IB reported the discovery of over 100,000 compromised ChatGPT account credentials on dark web marketplaces.
Why it matters: Employees often use ChatGPT to optimize proprietary code or enter classified correspondences. If threat actors access these account credentials, they could access a wealth of sensitive intelligence.
5. Patient records release by VUMC sparks privacy debate in healthcare
The Vanderbilt University Medical Center's handover of transgender patient records to the TN Attorney General's Office has sparked a debate on privacy and the application of HIPAA.
What they're saying: "The investigation is focused solely on VUMC and certain related providers, not patients, as VUMC is well aware," said Brandon Smith, chief of staff to the Attorney General.
An ongoing debate over patient privacy
Community links
- Inc. 5000 Founders dinner in San Francisco. Link
- Kannact reports major data breach impacting over 103,000 individuals. Link
- Synthetic security researchers pose a new threat to healthcare cybersecurity. Link
- Ensuring HIPAA compliance with dental practice vendors. Link
- HIPAA risk assessments for dental practices. Link
Good reads from around the web
- Cyberattackers target the Latin American healthcare sector. Link
- Scientists successfully unfroze rat organs and transplanted them. Link
- Rise in use of mental health apps raises new policy issues. Link
- Short daytime naps may keep brain healthy as it ages, study says. Link
- Weight loss set to be pharma's gain. Link
