A surgeon who was a former UCLA Healthcare System employee has been sentenced to four months in prison after admitting he illegally read private electronic medical records of celebrities and others.
Federal regulators soon will fix one of the problems with the official tally of major healthcare breaches. The Office for Civil Rights within the Department of Health and Human Services will begin naming the names of solo practitioners that have major breaches, rather than listing them only as "private practice." And...
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.
The South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control is wrapping up notification of nearly 3,000 individuals about a breach stemming from documents that were improperly discarded in a recycling bin rather than shredded.
Fresh off 11 months as a part-time adviser to federal regulators, John Glaser, CIO of Partners Healthcare in Boston, is making data encryption a top-priority task and urging others to do the same.
All healthcare organizations should create a detailed plan for meeting the requirements of the HITECH breach notification rule, says attorney Gerry Hinkley.
Shifting from desktop PCs to thin clients can provide a more secure way for clinicians to access electronic health records, says Dee Cantrell, R.N., chief information officer at Emory Healthcare in Atlanta.
For physician group practices, security should not be an afterthought to operational issues when implementing electronic health records, says security expert Jack Daniel of Concordant.
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 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.
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