Unsecure Fax Server Leaked Patient Data

A medical software vendors unsecured fax server leaked patients medical information, highlighting yet again the importance of vendor risk management. Sacramento, Calif.-based Meditab Software Inc., which provides fax services and other services for healthcare providers, leaked the patient records through a fax server that was hosted by a subdomain of one of its affiliate companies, MedPharm Services, based in Puerto Rico, according to a March 17 report on news site TechCrunch.Meditab's website says the privately held company provides software to...