A total of 111,000 Medicaid recipients in Colorado have been notified that a hard drive containing information about them is missing and may have been stolen from a state office.
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.
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.
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 final rules for the federal electronic health record incentive program require that participants conduct a risk analysis and use EHR software that has encryption and authentication capabilities.
Physician group practices should complete a thorough risk assessment before they begin shopping for an electronic health records system, says security expert Susan Miller.
The nation's healthcare information exchanges must focus on privacy and security as they develop new functions and features, says Irene Koch, executive director of the Brooklyn Health Information Exchange.
Two recent healthcare information breaches illustrate that even routine business processes, like throwing away old filing cabinets or mailing letters, can be risky.
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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