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Too little, too late? | First fine from HIPAA breach-notification rule not seen as much of a deterrent
By Joe Carlson | March 17, 2012 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
The first-ever penalties stemming from enforcement of the breach-notification rule in the 2009 stimulus law are drawing mixed reviews from data-privacy advocates, who say federal regulators' $1.5 million settlement with Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Tennessee seems unlikely to halt healthcare...
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Slow growth | But healthcare spending still doubles inflation rate
By Jessica Zigmond | January 14, 2012 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
The nation's economy is improving, but it's doing so weakly, and that continues to curb the growth in healthcare costs.
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Two Calif. hospitals announce collaborative relationship
By Paul Barr | January 14, 2012 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
California Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco, and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford announced the formation of a collaborative relationship.
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Sutter Health adds $400 million to pension plan
By Crain's Pensions & Investments | January 06, 2012
Sutter Health, Sacramento, Calif., contributed $400 million to the company’s defined benefit pension plan, according to a news release.
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Striking out | Nurses unions go up against hospitals as year ends
By Ashok Selvam | January 02, 2012 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
Festivus, the fictional December holiday popularized by TV's “Seinfeld,” featured an annual airing of grievances, and thousands of nurses across the country celebrated the ritual with a flurry of union activity as the year closed.
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Year's end marked by flurry of nurses' strikes
By Ashok Selvam | December 23, 2011 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
It's apparently the season for nurses' strikes across the country.
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Top data breaches involved medical records
By Joseph Conn | December 19, 2011 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Three of the top six “most significant” data breaches of 2011 involved patient medical records, according to the San Diego-based Privacy Rights Clearinghouse.
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Melanie Evans Of Interest Blog
Slower expenses trump sluggish revenue growth
December 14, 2011
Sutter Health operates two dozen hospitals in two states and finished last year with marginal revenue growth. Nonetheless, profit increased for the giant California health system.
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Calif. nurses set date for one-day strike
By Ashok Selvam | December 12, 2011 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
The California Nurses Association and National Nurses United announced a one-day strike at eight hospitals next week, including the Bay Area hospital where a patient died in September under the care of a nurse hired to replace striking union nurses.
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Joseph Conn IT Everything Blog
Take the prudent and responsible path
November 28, 2011
I had a surprise when I called the Sacramento County Clerk's office last week for a copy of the complaint in Pardieck v. Sutter Health, a class-action, medical data breach suit.
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