Data Breaches again at Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield New Jersey (Horizon BCBSNJ)

It seems health insurer Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield New Jersey (Horizon BCBSNJ) can’t catch a break. During the course of 2015 (1100) and 2016 (170,000), they have had two more incidents which compromised or placed at risk the protected health information or the personal identifying information of their insured. In December 2013, we commented on how Horizon had suffered …

Insider Threat – Canadian privacy breached as PHI/PII goes missing in Manitoba

Patients in Manitoba are receiving notification from their healthcare providers, that their personal and sensitive information has been lost or inappropriately accessed. As all who have responsibility for the security of information, the insider threat is very real. Often times we associate the insider threat to be associated with the actions of nefarious individual. As you’ll read below, the breaches …

Bringing the Social Media #Revolution to Health Care

Social Media and Healthcare On the 18th of October, the Mayo Clinic Center for Social Media announced the publication of Bringing the Social Media Revolution to Health Care (Mayo Clinic) – for those involved in the health care vertical and with social media responsibilities you owe it to yourself to get this book. More than 20 individual contributors made this …