Two recent healthcare information breaches illustrate that even routine business processes, like throwing away old filing cabinets or mailing letters, can be risky.
Those involved in forming health information exchanges recently got yet another reminder that they had better pay serious attention to privacy and security.
Insurer Health Net will pay $250,000 in damages and offer stronger consumer protections to settle a lawsuit filed by Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal over a breach in 2009.
WellPoint Inc., which owns Blue Cross and Blue Shield plans in 14 states, is notifying 470,000 people who applied for individual health insurance coverage that their information may have been breached on a web site.
The official list of major healthcare information breaches, launched four months ago, now includes 99 incidents affecting almost 3.5 million Americans.
Executives at a Nevada physician group are investigating how many patients were affected when an unencrypted server was stolen June 11 from an administrative office in Reno, Nev.
If you're looking for a way to persuade your CEO and board of directors to provide increased funding for information security, show them the list of major breaches reported to federal regulators.
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