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On January 14, the Fifth Circuit vacated the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center’s (M.D. Anderson) $4.3 million fine for HIPAA violations arising from its loss of more than 35,000 individuals’ protected health information (PHI).
Data Incidents and Agency Response
In 2012, an M.D. Anderson faculty member’s unencrypted laptop containing electronic protected health information (ePHI) for 29,021 individuals was stolen. Later in 2012, an M.D. Anderson trainee lost an unencrypted USB thumb drive that contained ePHI for over 2,000 individuals. In 2013, a visiting researcher lost another unencrypted USB thumb drive that contained ePHI for nearly 3,600 individuals.
January 25, 2021 The American College of Radiology (ACR) actively supports President Biden’s choice of California Attorney General Xavier Becerra as Secretary of the United States Department of
Levine is currently the face of Pennsylvania s COVID-19 response, serving as the top health official in the commonwealth. She would become the highest-ranking openly transgender official to serve in the federal government.
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In one of the final health care-related actions by the Trump Administration, on January 15, 2021, the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced that Excellus Health Plan, Inc. agreed to pay $5.1 million dollars and implement a Corrective Action Plan (CAP) to settle potential violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Privacy and Security Rules. Excellus is a New York State-based health insurer that provides health insurance coverage to more than 1.5 million people.
On September 9, 2015, Excellus filed a breach report notifying HHS that hackers had gained unauthorized access to its information technology systems. The report stated the breach began on or before December 23, 2013 and ended on May 11, 2015. According to the HHS investigation, the cyber-attackers installed malware and conducted reconnaissance activities that ultimatel