Morning Headlines 4/24/25
HHS Office for Civil Rights Settles Phishing Attack Breach with Health Care Network for $600,000
PIH Health, a network of providers in California, will pay $600,000 to settle potential HIPAA violations related to a 2019 employee email phishing attack that wound up exposing the data of 190,000 patients.
Computer system goes out at Tennova hospital system after database deleted
Tennova Healthcare (TN) attributes the need to revert to downtime procedures to an Oracle Health engineer who mistakenly deleted storage connected to a key database, resulting in a systems outage.
Patient experience software vendor Promptly acquires medical practice CRM software from MDprospects and Patient Spectrum.
Weird that Google can acknowledge its crowdsourced medical advice was wrong, but escape penalties for doing it wantonly at scale.