Tag:
Protected Health Information
Latest Headlines
Latest Headlines
Stolen laptop risks data of 2,100 Boston Children's patients
The personal information of more than 2,100 Boston Children's Hospital patients has been jeopardized after a hospital employee lost a laptop containing unencrypted health data.
Emory Healthcare loses records for 315K patients, including CEO's
As hospitals increasingly suffer data breaches resulting in identity theft , Emory Healthcare announced missing records for roughly 315,000 surgical patients, including those of the hospital's chief
8 strategies for tightening mobile security at hospitals
More than 5 percent of all Apple and Android smartphones will be infected with some type of malware in the next year, security firm Trusteer predicts, according to a report in the UK-based Telegraph.
Industry groups launch initiative to examine impact of breached PHI
Healthcare organizations looking for better ways to protect their patient information and to understand the financial harm that can occur when protected health information (PHI) is lost or stolen may
The privacy/security tiger doesn't have any teeth
Amid the recent firestorm of debate and controversial regulation aimed at curing the nation's healthcare system, significant effort and focus have been paid to matters of availability of care and to
Laptop theft is No. 1 source of health data breaches
HHS officials last week confirmed what many people have long suspected: Laptop theft is the most common source of health data breaches affecting at least 500 people. Of the 189 breaches reported to
Hospitals report breaches of thousands of paper, electronic records
Another week, another breach of patient records. Make that two breaches--one paper, one electronic; one on the west coast, one on the east coast. First, the Los Angeles County Department of Health
OCR sets rules for sharing HIPAA breach information
The HHS Office for Civil Rights, which is responsible for enforcing HIPAA privacy regulations, has detailed six new "routine uses" for reports of breaches of protected health information. In a notice
Data on TX HIV/AIDS patients stolen
Recently, a low-level administrator in Texas' Harris County Hospital District inappropriately downloaded medical and financial records for 1,200 patients with HIV, AIDS and other medical conditions
