An employee at Tampa General Hospital accessed the cover sheets of 675 patients without authorization, compromising their personal information, reports Tampa Bay Times.

A break-in of an unencrypted desktop computer resulted in the breach of 3,780 patients’ personal data at Philadelphia-based Temple University.

Apple’s Smartwatch, which introduces new health monitoring technology, represents the company’s first foray into data management.

The protected health information of 7,016 patients at Diatherix Laboratories, a Huntsville, Ala.-based company, was exposed for three years online after its contractor, Diamond Computing Company, accidentally allowed one of its computer servers to be made accessible through the internet.

BOSTON—Providers can improve their information security by taking steps early on in the vendor contracting process, according to a panel discussion at HIMSS’ Privacy and Security Forum on Sept. 8.

BOSTON—“Every hospital has concerns about medical device privacy and security. But it’s more than concerns—it’s out and out stress,” said Dale Nordenberg, co-founder and executive director of the Medical Device Innovation, Safety and Security Consortium, speaking at HIMSS' Privacy and Security Forum on Sept. 9.

This week was HIMSS’ Privacy and Security Forum and Clinical Innovation + Technology was there. We learned a little about the Office of Civil Rights’ plans for HIPAA audits, Boston Children’s Hospital’s experience with a cyberattack by Anonymous, the details of Aetna’s risk-based approach to information security, the alarming increase in healthcare-targeted cyberattacks and much more.

DALLAS and WAYZATA, Minn., September 8, 2014 – Sandlot Solutions, Inc., a leading electronic health record (EHR) interoperability, big data analytics and population health management platform provider today announced it now has $23.3 million in fresh capital to use to serve existing clients, complete near-term contracts and harvest a robust pipeline of potential new business.