Unencrypted backup computer files containing personal, health and financial information on about 800,000 people may have been lost by a company that a Massachusetts hospital hired to destroy the files.
Eighteen months ago, when the Heartland Payment Systems data breach first hit the news, Heartland CEO Bob Carr knew exactly where to turn - to Tylenol.
Although the proposal to modify the HIPAA privacy, security and enforcement rules is not yet a final regulation, the time to prepare for compliance is now.
Hospitals and physicians acquiring electronic health records software that qualifies for a new federal incentive program will know they're buying applications with robust security functions.
The "meaningful use" rule for the federal electronic health record incentive program provides a powerful, and much needed, new incentive to conduct a risk analysis, security experts say.
Federal authorities have charged 94 people in what U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder called "the largest federal healthcare fraud takedown in our nation's history."
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.
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