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NewsMassachusetts hospital may have lost backup files affecting 800,000 people
A third-party firm contracted out by a Massachusetts hospital to destroy sensitive computer files cannot confirm that it wiped them clean, leaving hundreds of thousands of patients at risk for... Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: Digital copiers pose HIPAA security risks
With all the new technology making its way into hospitals and doctor's offices, an old standby, the photocopier, may be represent a gaping hole in data security plans. As radiology news site... Read more...
FTC lawyer: Multi-layered data security essential in healthcare
Want to safeguard health information against the growing specter of identity theft? Try a strategy of "defensive depth," such as two-factor authentication and other multi-layered security policies, a... Read more...
Smart cards to protect against data breaches
In response to the growing threat of medical identity theft, the Smart Card Alliance Healthcare Council is calling for two-factor authentication for health IT systems, with--you guessed it--smart... Read more...
Report: Healthcare organizations may have a false sense of data security
Healthcare organizations may be lulling themselves into a false sense of security when it comes to data security, according to a biannual report from HIMSS Analytics. The white paper, commissioned by... Read more...
Study: Patient data at risk with file-sharing networks
It's been a decade since the height of Napster's popularity, but file sharing remains rampant on the Internet through networks such as Limewire, BitTorrent and Kazaa. And that may threaten the... Read more...
New phishing scams target doctors and their data
Physicians tend to have a good deal of money--recent med school grads with mountains of debt notwithstanding. Increasingly, physicians also are the gatekeepers of rich storehouses of valuable data.... Read more...
Report: Medical identity theft increasing
As more patients' medical information is put online, the prospect of medical identity theft is becoming more common. In 2007, which is the last time data was collected, more than 250,000 Americans... Read more...
Johns Hopkins investigating identity theft incident
Authorities are investigating the theft of patient information from Johns Hopkins Hospital, possibly by a former employee. The theft appears to have been part of a scheme to make fraudulent Virginia... Read more...
Express Scripts clients being extorted, too
Earlier this month, Express Scripts broke the news that someone was demanding an undisclosed amount, claiming that if the pharmacy benefits management firm didn't pay up, they would release about 75... Read more...
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