HCIS 140T Fundamentals Of Electronic Health Records Wk 5 Discussion
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HCIS 140T Fundamentals Of Electronic Health Records Wk 5 Discussion
Discussion Topic
With so much information available electronically, computer breaches
happen all the time, and as a
medical records administrator
, this is
something you need to always be aware of.
Research recent health care privacy breaches to determine what caused the
leak or breach, what the penalties were, and how the facility “repaired” the
damage to the patients that were impacted.
What is the breach you researched? Describe it and include what
caused the leak or breach, what the penalties were, and how the
facility repaired the damage to the patients who were impacted.
Have you ever been impacted by any type of breach in which your
personal information was exposed? What types of things did you have
to do to further protect your information?
If you have never been impacted by a breach, what impact do you
think this type of information leak could have on your daily life?
Response Requirements
By
Thursday
, respond to the questions above in a minimum of 175
words.
By
Monday
, post a total of 3 substantive responses over 2 separate
days for full participation. This includes your initial post and 2 replies to
classmates or your faculty member.
Medical Informatics Engineering (MIE) data breach occurred in July 2015 and impacted 3.9
million patients. Medical Informatics Engineering a developer of electronic medical records
software suffered a data breach impacting at 11 of its healthcare provider clients. Cyper
criminals accessed one of MIE's servers by using a compromised username and password and
maintained undetected access for 19 days impacting 239 of MIE's clients. Some of the data
leaked was personal information, usernames and passwords, security questions and answers,
spousal information, date of birth, social security numbers, lab results, diagnosis, insurance
information, disability codes, birth statistics, mailing addresses, number of children, and
medical conditions. The Office for Civil Rights discovered that the breach occurred because
medical informatica engineering violated HIPPA security rule 45 CFR 164.308. Because of the
violation medical informatics engineering was given a $100,000 fine. Cyber criminals were able
to access medical informatics private network by using comprised credentials to prevent
another breach of dark web monitoring solution should be implemented to monitor for
sensitive data leaks that would include network credentials.
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