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GA Blue plan sends benefit letters to wrong addresses

Last week, Georgia's largest health insurer concluded that it sent about 202,000 benefits letters containing personal and health information to the wrong addresses, courtesy of a systems error. Blue Read more...

SC plans to launch Medicaid HIE

South Carolina officials have set plans to launch a health information exchange for the state's 700,000 Medicaid patients. The South Carolina Health Information Exchange, known as SCIEx, will connect Read more...

Millions of patient billing records stolen from UT hospital

Billing records for about 2.2 million patients and guarantors were stolen last week from the University of Utah Hospitals & Clinics, just one more in what appears to be a rapidly growing flood of Read more...

Millions of patient billing records stolen from UT hospital

Billing records for about 2.2 million patients and guarantors were stolen last week from the University of Utah Hospitals & Clinics, just one more in what appears to be a rapidly growing flood of Read more...

HHS awards contract for medical identity fraud study

HHS's Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology has awarded a $450,000 conract to Booz Allen Hamilton to scope out the size of the medical identity theft problem in the 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...

Identity thieves getting better at stealing patient data

Where they once focused on banking data and credit card statements, identity thieves have become increasingly focused on breaking into patient data systems, observers say. Medical records offer 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 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...

Case study: Henry Ford digitizing referred patients' records

Detroit, MI-based Henry Ford Health System, a regional system which includes six hospitals and 1,800 affiliated physicians, has signed a deal under which it will digitize records from all providers Read more...

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