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About one in 20 participants in the federally funded electronic health-record incentive payment program can expect to be audited for compliance with meaningful use and other program criteria, a federal official said Monday.
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A class-action lawsuit has been filed against Glens Falls Hospital after the accidental release of the names and medical records of 2,360 patients. The records were available online through an unsecured computer server between Nov. 2 and March 14.
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Adventist Health System faces a class action lawsuit seeking damages for failure to safeguard the HIPAA-protected information of 763,000 patients at several of its hospitals in Florida.
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Here's a thought. When it comes to privacy and security, all patient information is equal. This isn't a new idea, of course.
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Healthcare organizations' highest priorities for cybersecurity should include use of cryptography, isolation of highly sensitive information and creation of a reporting system for breach events to meet what is being described as a rising threat by data and identity thieves, according to an early...
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Personal information belonging to more than 7,400 veterans in South Carolina may have been compromised when a laptop was stolen in February from the William Jennings Bryan Dorn VA Medical Center in Columbia, S.C.
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Before the release of the omnibus privacy rule earlier his year, or passage of the more stringent privacy provisions of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, or even the main federal health information privacy law, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, there...
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A consortium of privacy supporting organizations and individuals, the Texas-based Patient Privacy Rights Foundation, Microsoft Corp. and consultant PricewaterhouseCoopers have developed what they're calling a “trust framework” for health information technology systems.
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A laptop computer belonging to a private contractor and containing confidential and personal health information of 652 Washington state Department of Social and Health Services clients was stolen and later recovered in Gig Harbor, Wash.
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Oregon Health & Science University in Portland is in the process of contacting about 4,000 patients after the theft of a surgeon's laptop containing some of their personal information.
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