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MGH to Pay $1M to Settle 'Potential' HIPAA Violation
Massachusetts General Hospital has agreed to pay $1 million to settle  allegations it violated patient privacy...
Health Net Settles CT Data Breach Case for $375K
The Connecticut Insurance Commission announced this week that it reached a settlement with Health Net in which the...
Software Freedom’s latest target is medical devices
Heart disease patients like Dick Cheney are vulnerable to buggy software and hack-attacks aimed straight at the devices...
Plea deal in Jackson Memorial patient records theft case questioned
Saying she was fed up with healthcare fraud, a federal judge recoiled from guilty pleas offered by a husband-and-wife...
Jail Time For HIPAA Violator
United States Magistrate Judge Andrew J. Wistrich sentenced a former UCLA Healthcare System employee who admitted...
Derby, CT-based Griffin Hospital reports breach of 957 patients' records
Medical information for 957 patients at Derby, CT-based Griffin Hospital was breached by a radiologist who broke into a...
Florida couple again accused of stealing, selling patient records
Last year, Ruben E. Rodriguez and wife Maria Victoria Suarez were charged with running a scheme to pilfer patient...
Cedars-Sinai worker gets prison for stealing patient records
A former Cedars-Sinai Medical Center employee was sentenced to four years, eight months in prison after pleading guilty...
Medical privacy law fails to stop snooping
A review of state and federal records shows that dozens of Iowa healthcare workers have been disciplined by their...
Celebrity-snooping ex-UCLA Medical Center staffer is indicted
Lawanda Jackson, a former administrative specialist at UCLA Medical Center, has been indicted by a federal grand jury...