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Web Exclusive: 32 Large Patient Data Breaches Since September, Says OCR
An HHS organization which oversees enforcement and compliance of the HIPAA privacy and security rules reports that...
Eight Tips to Get Your Business Associates to Comply with HIPAA
Here are eight tips you can share with your BAs to get them ahead of the HIPAA compliance deadline next February.
CVS Works on Patient Privacy Improvements Following Fine
CVS Caremark Corp., parent company of the national's largest pharmacy chain, has implemented a chain-wide shredding...
Patient information theft investigated at Johns Hopkins
Federal authorities are investigating the theft of patient information, possibly by a former Johns Hopkins Hospital...
Hackers want millions for patient record data
The FBI and Virginia State Police are searching for hackers who demanded that the state pay them a $10 million ransom...
Academic claims to find sensitive medical info on peer-to-peer networks
An academic says he found thousands of sensitive medical records leaked over peer-to-peer networks from computers at...
The search for John Doe
Biomedical researchers are chafing under the constraints of the HIPAA Privacy Rule six years after it took effect. In...
Data breaches are more costly than ever
Organizations that experienced a data breach in 2008 paid an average of $6.6 million to rebuild their brand image and...
Google opposes sale of personal medical info
Google, which last year launched a personal online repository called Google Health, is refuting a charge by a different...
Texas-based Baylor Health Care says laptop with patient data stolen
A laptop computer containing limited health information on 100,000 patients was stolen from a Baylor Health Care System...