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U of Miami loses data on 2.1 million patients

April 28, 2008 — 6:59am ET
While they contend that the data is unreadable--and therefore poses no risks--officials with the University of Miami School of Medicine have gone public with the news that someone stole back-up... Read more...

HHS plans surprise HIPAA audits

March 3, 2008 — 7:59am ET
According to survey data released at HIMSS last week, 25 percent of hospitals surveyed had seen a security breach within the past year. Even worse, research firm SecureWorks has seen an 85 percent... Read more...

HiMSS08: IT execs ready to lock down security

February 25, 2008 — 7:59am ET
A big hello to all of you from HiMSS08, here in the lovely, though slightly muggy, city of Orlando. As it turns out, the conference has drawn even more attendees than originally expected, a whopping... Read more...

VA could spend $20M on data breach response

June 17, 2007 — 8:01pm ET

It looks like a recent data breach suffered by the Department of Veterans Affairs could be very pricey. Officials continue to deal with the recent loss of a hard drive, which disappeared from a VA medical center in Birmingham, AL in January of this year. The disk contained confidential data on any U.S. doctor billed Medicaid or Medicare through 2004, as well as more than 500,000 VA patients. To …

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A new focus on ID security

June 10, 2007 — 8:01pm ET

As the top story below reminds us, it doesn't take a sophisticated attack to expose critical patient data. In fact, in this case, something as simple as an unsecured Web server was to blame.

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Editor's Corner

November 26, 2006 — 8:01pm ET


I'm delighted to hear that doctors are taking e-care seriously (see below). Like most of you, I've been online for more than ten years, so my attitude is, "Hey, it's about time!"

However, if I were advising a smaller medical practice, I …

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