Morning Headlines 11/27/23

DOD’s EHR Deployment Nearly Complete

The Department of Defense completes the last of 23 MHS Genesis go-live waves.

BSA diverting ER patients after ‘potential security incident’ causes network outage

BSA Health System (TX) reverts to downtime procedures including ER diversion due to a Thanksgiving Day network outage.

Hackers accessed sensitive health data of more than 8 million Welltok patients

A notice filed by Virgin Pulse-owned Welltok says the personal information of 8.5 million people was exposed in a breach of its Moveit file transfer system, with affected customers including BCBS plans, Sutter Health, Stanford Health Care, and The Guthrie Clinic.

HHS’ Office for Civil Rights Settles HIPAA Investigation of St. Joseph’s Medical Center for Disclosure of Patients’ Protected Health Information to a News Reporter

Saint Joseph’s Medical Center (NY) pays $80,000 to settle HHS OCR charges that it provided photos and information of three patients in April 2020 to the Associated Press, which was writing an COVID-19 story, without the approval of the patients.