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.
Federal regulators have added four more breaches to the tally of major healthcare incidents, with 56 cases now reported since September 2009, when new federal reporting requirements kicked in.
A new survey of executives at 250 hospitals found that 19% had experienced at least one security breach in the past 12 months, up from 13 percent in a similar survey conducted in early 2008.
Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal has launched an investigation into an apparent breach by a radiologist who was taking information from one hospital where he formerly worked and using it to drum up business at another hospital.
An identity theft ring relied on a janitor to steal personal information from patient files at a Chicago hospital, authorities say.
As many as 250 patients were possible victims of identity theft at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in the year-long identity scam.
Using the stolen credit card and other...
Should health insurers follow Medicare's lead and give physicians incentives to adopt secure electronic health records? Some are saying that the healthcare reform measure signed into law March 23 should have required all insurers to provide EHR incentives. Do you think commercial insurers should follow in Medicare's...
Following President Obama's signing of healthcare reform legislation March 23, tens of millions of uninsured Americans could gain coverage in the next few years. That will create new responsibility to keep their insurance information, as well as their patient records, private and secure. Think of the millions of new...
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