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NJ flunks Medicaid data security audit
A new audit has concluded that New Jersey has not put adequate security measures in place to protect sensitive Medicaid program data. The review, conducted by the New Jersey Office of the State 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...
U.S. hospitals have security 'blind spot'
A new study confirms what many health IT administrators already know--that hospitals aren't doing a great job when it comes to investing in security. The study, which was commissioned by risk Read more...
Tenet warns of potential data theft
Hospital chain Tenet Healthcare has notified 37,000 patients that their personal information may have been compromised. The 37,000 patients were drawn from more than 100 facilities, including Read more...
Group to create health data security protection standard
A group of participants cutting across the employer, IT vendor and healthcare provider sectors announced last week that they'd come together to create a shared framework for health information Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: Hospitals face ID security holes
Hospitals face ID security holesDoes this happen at your hospital? According to one vendor, it's not unusual for hospitals to leave a single user logged into terminals that access sensitive medical Read more...
GAO warns of widespread ID security breaches
The reports detailing federal data security holes keep rolling in, but somehow, nobody seems to be Read more...
WA state hospital exposes patient info on Web
A Seattle-area community hospital admitted last week that it had allowed patient information--including Social Security numbers--to be exposed to Web searchers. Due to a security slip-up by a hospital contractor, data became publicly available for more than 500 patients treated at Edmonds, WA-based Stevens Hospital. The subcontractor had failed to secure one of its servers, creating a back door which made the patient data searchable by the public. The hospital is stressing that no …
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