The Department of Health and Human Services\u2019 (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) reported 32 January healthcare breaches, affecting 462,856 patients. Of the reported incidents, there were 19 breaches due to hacking\/IT incidents, 9 breaches from the unauthorized access\/disclosure of protected health information (PHI), 2 breaches due to theft, and 2 breaches due to improper disposal of PHI.<\/p>\n
The majority of January healthcare breaches were due to hacking\/IT incidents, with 89.9% of the total breaches reported<\/a> in January caused by this type of incident. Hacking\/IT incidents affected 416,275 patients. The following chart depicts the type of hacking\/IT incidents that caused January healthcare breaches, including how many patients were affected by each:<\/p>\n [\u2026]<\/p>\n This is an excerpt.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n Click here to view full original article at www.jdsupra.com<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Department of Health and Human Services\u2019 (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) reported 32 January healthcare breaches, affecting 462,856 patients. Of the reported incidents, there were 19 breaches due to hacking\/IT incidents, 9 breaches from the unauthorized access\/disclosure of protected health information (PHI), 2 breaches due to theft, and 2 breaches due to improper disposal of PHI.<\/p>\n The majority of January healthcare breaches were due to hacking\/IT incidents, with 89.9% of the total breaches reported<\/a> in January caused by this type of incident.… Read More <\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,3,15],"tags":[17,16,23],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apexcompliance.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apexcompliance.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apexcompliance.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apexcompliance.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apexcompliance.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/apexcompliance.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apexcompliance.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apexcompliance.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apexcompliance.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}