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NewsCalifornia 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...
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...
Report: More records compromised than previously thought at UCLA Medical Center
UCLA keeps having to admit that its medical records snooping problem is worse than it previously appeared. In August, the university medical center admitted that 939 patients had had their records Read more...
CA proposes medical record privacy rules
The California legislature is considering a new bill that imposes health data privacy protections above and beyond those already required by HIPAA, alarmed by a recent rash of medical record snooping Read more...
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