New Jersey fines Virtua Medical $418,000 for HIPAA breach

Healthcare IT News: The New Jersey Attorney General fined Virtua Medical Group for more than $418,000 after a misconfigured database breached the protected information of 1,654 patients in January 2016. 1,617 of those patients resided in the Garden State.

The attorney general found that Virtua failed to conduct a thorough analysis of the risk to the confidentiality of patient data sent to its third-party vendor. Further, officials said the medical group didn’t implement security measures that would reduce that risk, which violated HIPAA.

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