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Privacy and security in today's health society
Whether we're talking about Nadya Suleman (the "Octo Mom"), Britney Spears, or John Doe, patient privacy has been a big concern in recent years. Between security breaches and lack of HHS regulation,... Read more...
Study: Peer-to-peer file sharing apps can expose medical data
Here's a new problem to add to the list of ways in which health data can be left exposed to intruders: A university technology professor has submitted research demonstrating that he could obtain... Read more...
HITRUST releases proposed security framework
In recent times, we've been telling you about new requirements for health IT security, including a new requirement from the FTC that since healthcare providers are creditors, they need to have... Read more...
GA hospital health data breach due to outsourcing error
In recent years, Atlanta's Grady Memorial Hospital has made the news for its long-standing financial problems and board-room dramas. This time, however, it's a medical data breach that is bringing... 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...
ALSO NOTED: AHIP promotes health IT for cost-cutting; UCSF creates infosec task force after break-ins; and much more...
> Health insurance trade group America's Health Insurance Plans is pushing the adoption of EMRs and other health IT as a means of cutting healthcare costs. 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...
U of Miami loses data on 2.1 million patients
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...
WellPoint data may have been compromised
While it's not clear what happened, it looks as though clinical and personal data on 130,000-odd WellPoint beneficiaries may have been accessed through the web. WellPoint has announced that during... 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...
