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Millions of patient billing records stolen from UT hospital

June 14, 2008 — 7:29pm ET | By Anne Zieger
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

June 14, 2008 — 7:28pm ET | By Anne Zieger
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...

WI may change laws on health data sharing

February 11, 2008 — 7:59am ET
The state of Wisconsin is considering changes to its health data privacy rules to make it easier for providers to form health data exchanges. The pending bill, which should be introduced shortly,... Read more...

Group promotes using unique patient IDs for shared EMRs

December 17, 2007 — 7:59am ET
An industry non-profit, the National Alliance for Health Information Technology, has begun promoting the idea that it's wise to create a system of unique patient identifier ID numbers for use in... Read more...

U of Pittsburgh patient data exposed

April 15, 2007 — 8:01pm ET

The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) is recovering this week from a public relations storm which blew up when it was discovered that patient-specific information was online and freely available. The data, which included information on 80 patients, was first posted online in 2005, when a faculty member made a presentation on integrating multimedia into medical records. As part of the presentation, the now ex-faculty member had posted screen shots of the e-radiology …

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RI hospital records posted online

March 4, 2007 — 8:01pm ET

Data on 2,200 patients treated at a Rhode Island hospital was posted on the public website last week, catching hospital officials off guard. Patients seen at Westerly (RI) Hospital found out about the problem when a woman searching for her phone number with Google stumbled across the a link for the site, which includes patient names, Social Security numbers and medical records. Officials don't know how long the data was live online, or who put it there. Once they discovered …

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Johns Hopkins loses patient, employee data

February 11, 2007 — 8:01pm ET

Johns Hopkins Hospital reported last week that it had lost backup tapes with information on more than 135,000 patients, employees and retirees. As is often the case with such slip-ups, the tapes were lost by an intermediary, a contractor working for the hospital and university. The data on one missing tape included patient names, sex, date of birth and other demographic information, but no clinical information, Social Security Numbers, addresses or financial information, minimizing …

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