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Health Net loses data on 2M policyholders
Health Net ( NYSE: HNT ) is under investigation after it lost nine computer drives containing Social Security numbers and other personal information on almost 2 million current or former members.
Mammoth Medicare fraud bust targets organized crime group
In what has been deemed the "largest Medicare fraud scheme ever perpetrated by a single criminal enterprise," 73 people--including members of an Armenian-American organized crime syndicate--were
Stolen Hopkins patient info used in $600K credit card fraud
Don't assume that your facility is immune to an inside job. A Johns Hopkins Hospital employee stole the names, social security numbers, birth dates, and addresses from patients and gave them to
Privacy concerns hold back wider EHR adoption
This could be considered progress: Researchers at North Carolina State University say that it's not cost or stubbornness that is holding back wider EHR uptake, but rather concerns about privacy from
Hospital loses data files for 800,000 patients
A third-party firm contracted out by a Massachusetts hospital to destroy sensitive computer files cannot confirm that it wiped them clean, leaving hundreds of thousands of patients at risk of
SPOTLIGHT: Harris/Xerox survey finds consumers support EMRs, fear data theft
Patients seem ready to accept EMRs even if their physicians and other health providers aren't, according to a new Harris Interactive survey conducted on behalf of Xerox. Nearly half of the 2,180 U.S.
Red Flags Rule enforcement delayed until year's end
The Federal Trade Commission announced this morning--one business day before the June 1 enforcement date--that physicians will be granted yet another temporary reprieve from having to comply with the
SPOTLIGHT: Laptops stolen from Veterans Affairs, N.M., Medicaid contractors were unencrypted
Two recently disclosed potential breaches of health data in government health programs, potentially impacting more than 10,000 patients, were the result of stolen, unencrypted laptops belonging to
Laptops stolen from Veterans Affairs, N.M. Medicaid contractors were not encrypted
Will people ever learn? Two recently disclosed potential breaches of health data in government health programs, potentially impacting more than 10,000 patients, were the result of stolen, unencrypted
SPOTLIGHT: Healthcare organizations may have a false sense of data security
Healthcare organizations may be lulling themselves into a false sense of security when it comes to data security, according to a biannual report from HIMSS Analytics. The white paper, commissioned by
