Faced with a batch of bad publicity about healthcare information security, the Department of Veterans Affairs has launched an effort to help polish its image.
An earlier reported case of a stolen unencrypted laptop that led to a breach of information on New Mexico Medicaid patients also affects Medicaid patients in Tennessee.
A California hospital will fire five employees and discipline another because they used social media to post personal discussions about hospital patients.
Information on 708 kidney dialysis patients, including their Social Security numbers, was accessible on a University of Louisville web site for more than 19 months as a result of a programming error.
AvMed Health Plans, which earlier reported a breach stemming from the theft of two laptops, now says one of the devices may have included information on more than 1.2 million of its current and former members.
Although certain smaller healthcare organizations have a very good shot of winning an exemption to the Identity Theft Red Flags Rule, larger organizations should be working on compliance.
The theft of an unencrypted laptop from an employee's car resulted in a breach affecting more than 61,000 patients at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center.
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs is defending its security policies following a recent contentious Congressional hearing at which the department was called to task for security lapses.
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