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Health privacy issues can be resolved without obstructing care

At times, it seems like concerns about the security and privacy of healthcare data have catapulted into overdrive: For instance, it recently was predicted that healthcare spending on security would

Little support for changing Medicare

A new poll strongly suggests that Americans are repelled by the notion of making radical changes to the Medicare program--meaning providers such as hospitals won't likely have to anticipate such an

Health Net pays $55K fine for data breach involving 1.5M people

Health Net will pay $55,000 to settle a complaint that it didn't inform customers in Vermont that their personal information was lost along with an unencrypted computer hard drive. The

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