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NewsArizona hospital, California health department lose patient records
Two more patient privacy incidents made news last week. Mountain Vista Medical Center in Mesa, Ariz., lost data cards that contained information on 2,284 endoscopy patients, the Arizona Republic Read more...
California fines 7 facilities for privacy breaches
The California Department of Public Health has fined six hospitals and a nursing home a total of $792,500 for failing to prevent unauthorized access to patient data. Kern Medical Center in Read more...
Indiana AG sues WellPoint over timing of breach notifications
Indiana Attorney General Gregory Zoeller has sued Indianapolis-based WellPoint seeking $300,000 in civil penalties, saying that the nation's largest private health insurer waited too long to notify Read more...
Easily preventable privacy breaches cost hospitals millions
Though there is the perception in many quarters that HIPAA privacy enforcement has been lax over the years, the HHS Office for Civil Rights investigated and resolved at least 11,421 cases of alleged Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: 'Breach notification' rule is inadequate to protect data, security pro says
HHS recently withdrew its final "breach notification" rule that had been submitted to the White House for approval, and not a moment too soon, says Hospital Impact contributor Cathy Leahy, CEO of Read more...
Kaiser fined $250,000 for staff snooping into octuplet mom's records
As if mother of octuplets Nadya Suleman hasn't gotten enough press, now she's in the news again--this time because someone violated her rights. California's health regulators have fined Kaiser Read more...
Study: Better staff training could protect EMR privacy
If providers do a better job of training their staff, privacy breaches will be far less common, according to a new report issued by the AHIMA. Experts quoted in the report note that the recent rash Read more...
GAO warns of widespread ID security breaches
The reports detailing federal data security holes keep rolling in, but somehow, nobody seems to be Read more...
Editor's Corner
For several months, the VA has been under intense scrutiny as it struggles to close the massive holes in its … Read more...More hospital data security breachesTwo healthcare organizations are taking a public beating over info security breaches that exposed patient data--and one of them may be on the hook for huge legal penalties. The Akron Children's Hospital publicly admitted last week that an intruder had gained access to patient and charitable donor information. Around Labor Day, the hospital learned that German intruders had accessed information concerning about 200,000 patients. The data included Social Security numbers, bank account … Read more... |
