Healthcare organizations must revamp their business associate contracts to help ensure compliance with the HITECH Act's breach notification rule, says security expert Tom Walsh.
The South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control is wrapping up notification of nearly 3,000 individuals about a breach stemming from documents that were improperly discarded in a recycling bin rather than shredded.
All healthcare organizations should create a detailed plan for meeting the requirements of the HITECH breach notification rule, says attorney Gerry Hinkley.
Just how common are information breaches at hospitals? That depends on which survey you believe.
For example, a survey of 220 hospitals released April 20 found that 84 percent of U.S. hospitals have at least one breach incident a year, and 42 percent have at least 10 incidents. Earlier this month, another survey...
About 42 percent of hospitals have at least 10 information breaches a year, according to a new survey. That's double the percentage in a similar survey conducted a year earlier.
A small-town hospital in Wisconsin has notified 600 patients about a breach in connection with a former emergency room nurse charged with fraudulently obtaining controlled substances.
A New York managed care plan has learned an important lesson about leased copy machines: Many contain hard drives that should be scrubbed of information before the copiers are returned.
A Boston physician had his unencrypted laptop stolen while he was visiting South Korea for a lecture. But the computer contained a tracking device that later was used to disable the hard drive, rendering information permanently unreadable.
Five more breaches, all involving the theft or loss of devices or paper documents, have been added in recent days to the official federal tally of major healthcare incidents.
Just when you think you've heard about all the potential ways healthcare information can be breached comes word of an insurance company that forgot to empty a filing cabinet it donated along with other surplus office furniture.
Healthcare organizations must revamp their business associate contracts to help ensure compliance with the HITECH Act's breach notification rule, says security expert Tom Walsh.
In an interview, Walsh points out that under the rule, business associates, such as banks, billing firms and software companies, that have...
Three more breaches, two of them involving the theft of unencrypted laptops, have been added to the official federal tally of major healthcare incidents.
BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee has doubled to nearly 1 million its estimate of the number of current and former members whose personal information was on 57 stolen hard drives.
A Michigan hospital is notifying an undisclosed number of patients that an external hard drive containing some patient demographic information was recently lost or stolen.
John Muir Health, a Walnut Creek, Calif.-based health system, is notifying 5,450 patients about a potential breach of information stemming from the theft of two unencrypted laptop computers.
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