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ALSO NOTED: NJ Blue plan sees laptop-based data loss; Democratic coalition stumps for e-prescribing; and much more...

February 4, 2008 — 7:59am ET
> New Jersey's largest health insurance plan is warning the public that personal information on about 300,000 members was lost when a laptop was stolen. Read more...

HHS head encourages payers to demand e-prescribing

November 26, 2007 — 7:59am ET
It's just a blog--but look who's blogging! In a recent post, HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt has suggested that not only... Read more...

SPOTLIGHT: Cancer patient data from four states is stolen

January 7, 2007 — 8:01pm ET


In what is becoming an uncomfortably familiar scenario, Emory University officials sent out a mass mailing to cancer patients warning them that a laptop containing their personal health information had been stolen. The laptop was stolen from an office of Electronic Registry Systems (ERS), a business contractor in Ohio, which serves Emory Hospital, Emory Crawford Long Hospital and Grady Memorial Hospital. Records lost included names, social security numbers, patient addresses, medical …

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Securing data with a hard drive-less laptop

November 5, 2006 — 8:01pm ET

So you're afraid your laptops will be stolen and patient data will fall into the hands of unscrupulous outsiders? Here's a potential solution to the problem--one so retro that it's cutting-edge. Hoping to attract shell-shocked healthcare IT managers, at least two hardware vendors have begun to sell laptops that have no hard drive, a move hearkening back to the days of dumb terminals. The intent, …

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Allina suffers patient data theft

October 22, 2006 — 8:01pm ET

Thousands of patient social security numbers and names went missing last week when a laptop was stolen from a nurse working for Minneapolis-based Allina Hospitals and Clinics. Under Allina's obstetrics home-care program, nurses visit homes to monitor high-risk pregnancies and check in on mothers and babies. Last week, an affiliated nurse returned from dropping off a specimen at a lab to find that her laptop was gone, complete with patient data from about 14,000 households.

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VA revamping IT infrastructure

October 8, 2006 — 8:01pm ET

The U.S. Department of Veteran's Affairs (VA) has set plans to realign its IT organization over the next two years. The VA has awarded a $16 million contract to IBM to accomplish the job, which will encompass the Veteran's Health Administration, Veterans Benefits Administration and National Cemetery Administration. The VA already has a widely-praised health IT infrastructure in place, including the …

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