Two northern California healthcare organizations have sent letters to more than 17,000 patients notifying them that their personally identifiable medical records have been exposed in separate breach incidents. Meanwhile, links between one of the breaches and a meth amphetamine investigation may... FULL STORY »
Four Republican House members are asking pointed questions about the security of patients' healthcare data based on allegations in a lawsuit in which an anonymous company claims that a raiding party of IRS agents confiscated protected health-information files on about 10 million Americans. FULL STORY »
By Sacramento (Calif.) Business Journal | June 11, 2013
When Alameda County, Calif., sheriff's deputies conducted a drug bust in Oakland in May, they found drugs, but a search turned up something else, too: personal information on about 4,500 Sutter Health patients. FULL STORY »
By Kevin Freking / Associated Press | June 06, 2013
At least eight foreign-sponsored organizations, mostly connected to the Chinese military, have hacked into computer networks at the Veterans Affairs Department in recent years or were actively trying to do so, a former VA computer security chief told Congress this week. FULL STORY »
By The (Springfield, Mass.) Republican | June 05, 2013
The University of Massachusetts at Amherst announced that it is notifying clients of the university's Center for Language, Speech, and Hearing that their protected health information was possibly revealed after a workstation was inadvertently infected with a malware program. FULL STORY »
Idaho State University agreed to pay $400,000 and adopt a corrective action plan under a settlement agreement with HHS' Office for Civil Rights at HHS over a breach of data security involving the records of about 17,500 patients at its Pocatello Family Medicine Clinic. FULL STORY »
Bon Secours Hampton Roads Health System is contacting more than 5,000 patients on behalf of its Bon Secours Mary Immaculate Hospital in Newport News, Va., to let them know of an electronic health records security breach. FULL STORY »
Boxes of medical records for more than 1,400 patients of Miami-based Jackson Health System have been missing since January, the hospital system recently reported. A spokesman said the missing documents were either on their way to be scanned electronically or returning from the process when they... FULL STORY »
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