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So what are the top five health data security risks? According to security software vendor Absolute Software Corp., which makes firmware-based solutions, top risks include failure to protect Read more...

So what are the top five health data security risks? According to security software vendor Absolute Software Corp., which makes firmware-based solutions, top risks include failure to protect Read more...

As the theft of patient data from Allina Hospitals and Clinics reminds us (see below), today's healthcare IT departments are in something of a security bind. With HIPAA enforcement looming, maintaining tight data security is more critical than …

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No issue of FierceHealthIT would be complete without at least one report of sensitive data patient date being stolen from a healthcare facility, so here it goes: A Washington state mental health care provider, Compass Health, has notified authorities that a laptop computer containing data on an undisclosed number of patients was stolen more than a month ago. It joins our growing collection of such …

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Thieves recently stole 10 computers from an HCA regional office, potentially compromising the personal data of thousands of Medicare and Medicaid patients in eight states. The personal information of thousands of employees and physicians who tended to patients is also at stake, authorities said last week. Authorities suspect the crime is a part of a series of computer thefts by people looking to make money from hardware, not data. HCA did not disclose where or when the thefts took …

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