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CIOs seek consensus on record ID and consent management
By Joseph Conn | October 10, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Some healthcare CIOs hope to create a platform for dialogue and to create consensus around two sensitive privacy issues—patient record identification and consent management.
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Data breaches are 'inevitable,' so prepare now, CIOs told
By Joseph Conn | October 09, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
The bad news is, if your healthcare organization hasn't yet had a privacy and security breach hit the media, it probably will, consultant Steven Bennett says.
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Computer containing patient data stolen from UCSF employee's car
By San Francisco Examiner | October 09, 2013
An unencrypted laptop containing the medical and personal data of more than 3,500 University of California at San Francisco Medical Center patients was stolen from an employee's car in September.
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Texas organizations' program aims to improve state's health IT security
By Rachel Landen | October 08, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
The Texas Health Services Authority and the Health Information Trust Alliance are partnering to develop and implement a program that will improve the security of health information for Texas residents.
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Solving healthcare's big data analytics security conundrum
By CIO | October 08, 2013
HIPAA makes it hard for organizations to obtain personal health information and even harder to use that information for the purpose of data analysis. Empowering patients to own and share their own data—and then assuring them that it's being properly de-identified—can ease this process.
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CaroMont Health reveals security breach
By Gaston Gazette (Gastonia, N.C.) | October 07, 2013
An unsecure email sent by a CaroMont Health employee has resulted in a possible security breach involving more than 1,300 patients' personal health records. The email in question contained protected health information, including names, dates of birth, addresses, telephone numbers, medical record...
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Laptop stolen from Wis. hospital employee may hold patient data
By WREX TV (Rockford, Ill.) | October 03, 2013
A Janesville, Wis., hospital is warning patients after one of its laptops was stolen from an employee's car over the summer. St. Mary's Janesville Hospital thinks 629 patients may have been affected, meaning some protected health information relating to medical visits may have been compromised.
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Health IT security is difficult, but not impossible
By CIO | September 20, 2013
Data breaches threaten healthcare organizations from all angles—from hackers, thieves and forgetful employees—and touch all facets of IT infrastructure. Updated HIPAA rules make organizations responsible for the actions of their business associates, too. Healthcare IT security is a...
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HHS makes last-minute changes to HIPAA privacy rule
By Joseph Conn | September 20, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
In the run-up to the Sept. 23 enforcement date for a host of revisions to federal health information privacy laws, one group—clinical laboratories—will get something of a respite, and another—pharmaceutical manufacturers—some regulatory relief.
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White House pushing healthcare security measures
By Jesse J. Holland and Kelli Kennedy / Associated Press | September 18, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
The Obama administration is planning a high-level effort to reassure Americans about the privacy and security of the information submitted under the new healthcare law, hoping to blunt complaints from Republican opponents that enough isn't being done to protect consumer data.
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