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NewsFacebook post, removed records among latest patient privacy breaches
As HIPAA compliance issues continue to rise, two recent California hospital incidents do nothing to suggest that patient data will be safer heading into the new year. At Mission Hills-based Read more...
Civil Rights data access proposal unrealistic, expensive, CHIME says
The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) has asked the federal Office of Civil Rights (OCR) to reconsider its proposal for requiring that healthcare providers and insurers Read more...
California 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...
Battle over privacy of de-identified data continues
Think the tug-of-war between vendors, health systems and privacy advocates over data mining and de-identification of patient records is subsiding? Think again. The outspoken Dr. Deborah Peel has a Read more...
HIMSS10: IBM marches into HIE after closing Initiate deal
It may have been a coincidence that IBM closed on its acquisition of Initiate Systems just as HIMSS10 got underway in Atlanta last week. We're certain that it was no coincidence that IBM introduced a Read more...
Hackers demand $10M for VA prescription database
It is, unfortunately, the kind of spectacular crime that tends to encourage imitators. One or more black-hat hackers has apparently stolen millions of personal prescription records from a state 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...
Is the VA killing VistA? Say it ain't so
As longer-term readers know, this newsletter has praised the VA's efforts with open-source EMR VistA since we first got started. VistA is, in short, a Read more...
Time to become a security advocate
Folks, please note, you're not going to open up FierceHealthIT and find that I'm arguing for hospitals to spend less time on HIPAA. While it's easy to argue the details in how it's implemented, I Read more...
ALSO NOTED: NYC mayor offers $27M for physician EMR adoption; Group focuses on health data interoperability; and much more...
> A foundation run by New York City's mayor has put up $27 million to help the city's doctors adopt EMRs. Read more...
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