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HHS report: Nearly 7.9M health records exposed
Since the required reporting began in 2009, there have been more than 30,000 data breaches, affecting nearly 7.9 million people who have had their health records exposed, according to a new report by
Protect your patients' info to avoid the HHS 'wall of shame'
It's tough being a keeper of patient health information these days. Even the most organized and revered entity--and those with seemingly adequate security safeguards--seems to eventually fall victim
Security of patient records breached across the country
Security breaches of patient records have been popping up in the news recently, with some breaches affecting hundreds. A federal grand jury on Thursday indicted a former employee of University of
Doctor disciplined for revealing patient info on Facebook
Check your privacy policies for medical staff--a Rhode Island case shows they may need some tightening. An R.I. physician was just reprimanded this week for inadvertently identifying a patient on
Fox News: WikiLeaks case has implications for EMR security
Is it an attempt by a partisan news organization to stir up fear of Big Brother, or are there legitimate concerns about the privacy of EMRs in the age of WikiLeaks? Probably a little bit of both.
The privacy/security tiger doesn't have any teeth
Amid the recent firestorm of debate and controversial regulation aimed at curing the nation's healthcare system, significant effort and focus have been paid to matters of availability of care and to
Urology patient security breach at Henry Ford
An employee's laptop containing unsecured personal health information was stolen from an unlocked urology medical office at a Henry Ford Health System facility on Sept. 24, the Detroit News reports.
Data breaches costly, but hospital execs say EHRs can prevent leaks
If you think data breaches don't cost hospitals, think again. The impact of a data breach is about $1 million per hospital per year, and the lifetime value of a lost patient is $108,000, according to
Hospitals report breaches of thousands of paper, electronic records
Another week, another breach of patient records. Make that two breaches--one paper, one electronic; one on the west coast, one on the east coast. First, the Los Angeles County Department of Health
Extormity 'breach' highlights fine line between fiction, reality
Extormity struck again this week. The fictional, satirical EMR vendor emailed a "press release" with the headline, "Extormity Proudly Announces Breach." (If the people behind Extormity were as
