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Week Celebrates Contributions of Behind-the-Scenes Professionals

March 24-30 is Health Information Professionals Week, a showcase for the thousands of health information management (HIM) professionals who perform their duties masterfully throughout the…

Play Your Part to Protect Patients

Sometimes things happen that could cause a privacy or security problem for a patient. By reporting these incidents, you can help ensure Baptist fosters and…

How to recognize phishing email messages, links, or phone calls

Phishing email messages, websites, and phone calls are designed to steal information and money. Cybercriminals can do this by installing malicious software on your computer…

A warning about Dropbox, GoogleDocs and OneDrive

Have you ever used, or thought about using, Dropbox, GoogleDocs, or OneDrive? You may have seen your kids using these applications for their school work…

HIPAA Corner: Phishing

You may not realize it, but you are a phishing target both at work and at home. Your information is worth a tremendous amount of…

HIPAA Corner: How to dispose of documents containing patient info

Cornell Prescription Pharmacy in Denver will pay $125,000 and adopt a corrective action plan after a reporter found the pharmacy was improperly disposing documents containing…

Issue: Cyber Attacks

Premera Blue Cross, a health plan in the Pacific Northwest, is notifying 11 million individuals about a cyber attack that exposed personal information. On Jan….

Access to your own medical record

Team members may not use their employee access to Baptist’s computer systems to access their own medical record. Employee access is to be used for work-related…

Crime Doesn’t Pay

A former medical assistant at a South Florida medical practice has been sentenced to three years in federal prison for stealing patient identities from a…

Hackers steal data of 4.5M patients in second largest HIPAA breach

Tennessee-based Community Health Systems—which operates 206 hospitals across 29 states—discovered a breach recently and believes the cyber-attack occurred in April and June. CHS officials said…