The California Department of Health Care Services has notified nearly 30,000 individuals of a breach stemming from the loss of a compact disk that may not have been encrypted.
Experts tell Congress that technology to provide for perfect attribution won't be possible anytime soon. Yet if it were, the solution could raise privacy and civil liberties concerns that many Americans would find untenable.
The official federal tally of major healthcare information breaches is now "new and improved," with a searchable format and the names of private practices revealed.
An audit has determined that 10 to 20 percent of the Department of Veterans Affairs' vendor contracts lack information security clauses, VA CIO Roger Baker says.
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.
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