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Patient data for 7,000 compromised in Arkansas
Roughly 7,000 University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences radiology patients had their information exposed after a physician there emailed the data to a person outside the organization with a request
HIMSS: Hospitals must be more 'proactive' about data breach prevention
Hospitals and health organizations need to be more proactive about preventing health data breaches, concluded the authors of the recently released "2012 HIMSS Analytics Report: Security of Patient
Experts: Meaningful Use Stage 2 could put an end to patient data-hoarding
Stage 2 of Meaningful Use may do more than spur the adoption of EHRs and the growth of health information exchange (HIE). It could change the way that providers regard their patient records, a panel
eHealth Initiative issues IT recommendations for ACOs
Flexibility to support continual change and the ability to ensure the security of patient data are key to creating and maintaining the infrastructure of accountable care organizations, according to a
Hospitals criticized for patient data-mining
Hospitals are coming under fire for using private health and financial records to target affluent or privately insured patients, according to Kaiser Health News and USA Today. Although data mining is
Health data breaches cost $6.5B annually
The number of reported data security breaches in healthcare organizations increased 32 percent from 2010 to 2011, and, on average, there were four breaches per healthcare provider this year,
Patients sue Sutter Health after largest data breach
Sutter Health will face a class-action lawsuit regarding the Californian health system's largest data breach that involved the personal information of 4.24 million patients. After a desktop computer
Hospital data breach of 8K patients may lead to federal probe, fine
A computer glitch that exposed the financial information of more than 8,000 patients online may put Lawrence (Kan.) Memorial Hospital under federal investigation, reports WellCommons. Hospital
Disease network merging EHR, biomedical data would speed treatment
A new data network should be created to integrate the emerging research on the molecular make up of diseases with the clinical data of patients in electronic health records, the National Research
Senators call for stronger health data protections, penalties
Just days after UCLA Health System notified more than 16,000 patients that an external hard drive containing their personal information went missing , Congress gathered to question how electronic
