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Seattle system will pay $100K HIPAA fine after repeated breaches
A Seattle-based health system has agreed to pay a $100,000 HIPAA fine to HHS--as well as improve its medical data security--after failing to properly secure data backup tapes, disks and laptops. This Read more...
UnitedHealthcare breach leads to UC Irvine identity thefts
After months of investigation, it looks like a data breach at health plan UnitedHealthcare Services may be behind a large-scale rash of identity theft taking place at the University of California, Read more...
NJ flunks Medicaid data security audit
A new audit has concluded that New Jersey has not put adequate security measures in place to protect sensitive Medicaid program data. The review, conducted by the New Jersey Office of the State Read more...
U of Miami loses data on 2.1 million patients
While they contend that the data is unreadable--and therefore poses no risks--officials with the University of Miami School of Medicine have gone public with the news that someone stole back-up Read more...
WellPoint data may have been compromised
While it's not clear what happened, it looks as though clinical and personal data on 130,000-odd WellPoint beneficiaries may have been accessed through the web. WellPoint has announced that during Read more...
U.S. hospitals have security 'blind spot'
A new study confirms what many health IT administrators already know--that hospitals aren't doing a great job when it comes to investing in security. The study, which was commissioned by risk Read more...
NIH security breach includes data on U.S. Rep
Now this must be a little embarrassing for officials at NIH. As it turns out, Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX) was one of 3,000 patients involved in a cardiac MRI study whose records were possibly lost when a Read more...
UCLA staff accused of viewing Britney Spears' records
In what is unfortunately an all-too-predictable episode, UCLA Medical Center executives have said that they're investigating 13 staff members who seem to have accessed Britney Spears' medical records Read more...
UCLA staff accused of viewing Britney Spears' records
In what is unfortunately an all-too-predictable episode, UCLA Medical Center executives have said that they're investigating 13 staff members who seem to have accessed Britney Spears' medical Read more...
Group to create health data security protection standard
A group of participants cutting across the employer, IT vendor and healthcare provider sectors announced last week that they'd come together to create a shared framework for health information Read more...
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