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It looks like a recent data breach suffered by the Department of Veterans Affairs could be very pricey. Officials continue to deal with the recent loss of a hard drive, which disappeared from a VA medical center in Birmingham, AL in January of this year. The disk contained confidential data on any U.S. doctor billed Medicaid or Medicare through 2004, as well as more than 500,000 VA patients. To …

A new study by the Government Accountability Office has concluded that the systems used by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to send and receive bills and communicate with providers are riddled with at least 47 security holes. According to the GAO, the CMS network hasn't implemented sufficiently secure user identification and authentication, user authorization, system boundary protection, cryptography, and auditing and security event monitoring. CMS also failed to make …

There's an illuminating case study waiting for you in the Sept. 4 edition of VARBusiness . In it, you'll get the skinny  on solution provider Northwest Computer Support of Tukwila, Washington and how it helped Apple Physical Therapy (APT), a health-care provider in. APT operates 20-plus clinics in the Northwest and needed to streamline its growing IT administrative tasks. The …