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Summer of the Health Data Breach continues
It’s getting to the point where during this Summer of the Health Data Breach, keeping up with each occurrence is easier said than done. There were two different breaches last week that were of...
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Stolen laptop leads to health data breach at Apria Healthcare
A laptop stolen from the locked car of an Apria Healthcare employee has exposed the protected health information (PHI) of as many as 11,000 patients. The healthcare company provides home infusion,...
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How can healthcare providers improve data security?
PHIprivacy.net brought forward some interesting data protection information this week in digging up the details surrounding two apparent data breaches at Kindred Healthcare Inc. in the span of six...
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EHR and health IT news (Aug. 13 to Aug. 17)
Stolen laptop leads to health data breach at Apria Healthcare: A laptop stolen from the locked car of an Apria Healthcare employee has exposed the protected health information (PHI) of as many as...
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Texas MD Anderson endures second data breach
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center (MD Anderson) may want to consider local data storage or even tethering its portable devices to its walls after having to announce that it suffered a...
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Top technical safeguards for health data security
The most recent wave of health data breaches has raised the red flag concerning the lack of administrative safeguards in place to prevent thefts caused by physical theft. While the individual employees...
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Making the best of BYOD in a healthcare setting
Back in August, there was a bring your own device (BYOD) survey done by Coalfire Labs that revealed some strong reasons for healthcare CIOs not to allow BYOD in their practices without having everyone...
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Attorney tips for healthcare BYOD
Bringing your own device (BYOD) in a hospital setting keeps many a CIO up at night because of the technical confusion that comes with it. There are also legal aspects of BYOD that a practice needs to...
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Mostashari: ONC is more than meaningful use, health IT cheerleader
The head of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), Farzad Mostashari, MD, ScM, has respondent a recent news story that characterized the federal agency as...
View ArticleTexas MD Anderson Cancer Center announces data breach
The same week that Alaska DHSS agreed to pay $1.7 million to the government for an ePHI security breach, another big data breach was reported by the more » The post Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center...
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