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 review of this week's top news items, including:
Breach Alert: Copiers Are a Risk
HITECH Act Compliance for Business Associates
Privacy Concerns a Roadblock to PHRs
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When will federal regulators draft long-awaited privacy and security rules for personal health records? So far, officials at the Department of Health and Human Services are being tight-lipped on the subject. Asked about the status of the rules, which, under the HITECH Act, were due in February, an HHS spokesman would...
Is the protection of individual privacy in conflict with innovation on the Internet? It's a question Commerce Department Secretary Gary Locke wants the public to answer.
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.
As more healthcare organizations ramp up their use of electronic health records, some are concluding that using biometric technology to verify patients' identities can help improve patient safety and prevent identity theft.
For Holy Name Medical Center, the solution to the problem of creating multiple, partial electronic health records for a same patient was in the palm of their hands.
Why would a clinic serving uninsured and Medicaid patients in New York City invest in futuristic iris scanners? Because the technology helps the clinic avoid calling up the wrong patient record because of mistaken identity and also serves as a useful fraud prevention tool.
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...
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