Category: Healthcare

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1. Military Health System develops EHR for White House

   Explore Article healthcareitnews.com (Mar 9 2010) Healthcare

   The Military Health System has set up a version of its AHLTA electronic health record system for use in the White House. MHS chief information officer Charles Campbell talked about the initiative at the recent Health Information and Management Systems Society's annual conference in Atlanta. The system, which was set up in just two months, is based on AHLTA Theater, the Defense department's electronic health records system designed for rugged uses in war zones.
   

   Comment on Article Mentions:   Atlanta   Defense   White House

2. Compliance Week: Massachusetts’ Tough Privacy Law Takes Effect

   Explore Article Compliance Week (Mar 9 2010) Corporate , Healthcare , Higher Ed , Compliance

   Corporate compliance, legal, and IT officers entered a brave new world last week, when Massachusetts’ strict new data privacy law finally went into effect. The law, bureaucratically known as 201 CMR 17.00, took hold on March 1 after a year of delays...
   

   Comment on Article Mentions:   Massachusetts

3. Should Feds Remove Small Practices from Red Flags Compliance?

   View all 2 articles » Explore Article healthleadersmedia.com (Mar 9 2010) Healthcare , Compliance

   An author on Red Flags Rule compliance tells HealthLeaders Media that eliminating small practices from complying with the FTC's identity theft prevention program regulation would lead to more identity violations.
   

   Docs Urge FTC to Exempt Health Care from Red Flags Rule - HomeCare magazine  
   

   Comment on Article Mentions:   Red Flags   U.S. District Court   District Court

4. Data Breaches Revealed At Local Hospitals

   View all 3 articles » Explore Article thebostonchannel.com (Mar 3 2010) Healthcare , Compliance , Lastest Data Breaches

   At Mass Eye and Ear Infirmary, the credit card information of 1,076 people may have been compromised... a data breach affecting 528 people at Brown University... the laptop of a former Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center employee was stolen... and According to HHS, the electronic medical records of more than 1,800 patients at an unidentified private medical practice in Stoughton were also stolen in December.
   

   UTMB patient data may have been stolen - chron.com  
   12,000 Patients Exposed After A Former Employee Was Found In Possession Of A Limited Amount Of Patient Billing Data - OSF Data Loss Database  
   

   Comment on Article Mentions:   HHS   Boston

5. Names, addresses, medical information and some Social Security numbers of 12,500 on stolen laptop

   Explore Article OSF Data Loss Database (Mar 5 2010) Consumer , Healthcare , ID Theft Prevention , Lastest Data Breaches

   Shands HealthCare data loss incident circa 2010-03-01
   

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6. Medical ID thefts can harm patients' health; Prosecutors go after Medicare fraud

   View all 5 articles » Explore Article THE MEDICAL NEWS (Mar 4 2010) Healthcare , Medical Identity Theft

   "Experts say a different type of identity theft is on the rise -- one that could compromise both the victim's credit and physical safety. Patients using someone else's name, Social Security number or insurance card to get health care could risk their victim's health if inaccurate information, such as blood type and medications, is recorded on ...
   

   Medical identity theft strikes 5.8% of American adults - NetworkWorld.com  
   Daily Q&A: How can I tell if I am a victim of medical identity theft? - Home Page  
   

   Comment on Article Mentions:   Pam Dixon   Medicare   Springfield

7. Spreadsheet containing patient information, including Social Security numbers, addresses, telephone numbers exposed on file sharing network

   Explore Article OSF Data Loss Database (Mar 2 2010) Consumer , Healthcare , ID Theft Prevention , Lastest Data Breaches

   Open Door Clinic data loss incident circa 2010-02-26
   

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8. Data theft creates notification nightmare for BlueCross

   View all 2 articles » Explore Article BusinessWeek (Mar 2 2010) Corporate , Healthcare , Compliance , Data Breach

   A break-in one evening last October at a shopping mall in Chattanooga, Tennessee, is proving expensive for BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee. Over the past five months, the company has employed a small army of workers to sort through the aftermath of what has proved to be a large and complex breach.
   

   BlueCross ID theft warnings top 500,000 and growing - Chattanooga Times Free Press  
   

   Comment on Article Mentions:   Maryland   BlueCross   Department of Defense

9. 'nhin Direct' launched for simpler data exchange

   Explore Article healthcareitnews.com (Feb 26 2010) Consumer , Healthcare , ID Theft Prevention

   The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT has launched "NHIN Direct" as a simpler way for physicians and consumers to exchange health information than through implementation of the full-blown Nationwide Health Information Network.
   

   Comment on Article Mentions:   ONC   National Coordinator for Health IT   Health IT Policy Committee

10. HHS Posts Data Breach Notifications

    View all 2 articles » Explore Article Health Data Management (Feb 24 2010) Healthcare , Compliance , Data Breach

    The Office for Civil Rights in the Department of Health and Human Services has launched a Web page listing covered entities that have reported breaches of unsecured protected health information affecting more than 500 individuals. The posting is mandated under the HITECH Act, and comes as the grace period for enforcement of the data breach ...
    

    Healthcare Breaches Affecting 500 or More Individuals - hhs.gov  
    

    Comment on Article Mentions:   HHS   Tennessee   Joseph Goedert

11. Standards panel wrestles with patient access to EHRs under new rule

    Explore Article healthcareitnews.com (Feb 25 2010) Consumer , Healthcare , Compliance

    Members of the Health IT Standards Committee believe more federal clarification will be required surrounding patient access to their electronic health records (EHRs), as required under the interim final rule on standards and certification. At the HIT Standards Committee meeting on Wednesday, experts said the rule is not clear enough on how a provider must grant a patient access to their electronic records and what the record must include.
    

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12. Data security breaches often triggered by carelessness

    Explore Article American Medical Association (Feb 22 2010) Healthcare , Compliance

    For physicians, a lost smartphone or forgotten laptop can mean a long, arduous process of notifying patients -- and the risk of penalties under HIPAA.
    

    Comment on Article Mentions:   USB

13. Documents of 50 students discarded in trash contained names, addresses, medical records, health numbers and transcripts

    Explore Article OSF Data Loss Database (Feb 23 2010) Consumer , Healthcare , Higher Ed , Lastest Data Breaches

    Medix School London Campus data loss incident circa 2010-02-23
    

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14. Nearly 50,000 Social Security Numbers Exposed On Envelopes

    View all 2 articles » Explore Article ABC Owned Television Stations (Feb 9 2010) Consumer , Government , Healthcare , Medical Identity Theft , Lastest Data Breaches

    The state of California has admitted to a mailing mistake that exposed nearly 50,000 Social Security Numbers belonging to Medi-Cal recipients. The letters were mailed last Monday, with the Social Security Numbers printed just above the mailing address. There was more bad news inside.
    

    Social Security numbers printed on address labels of about 50,000 - OSF Data Loss Database  
    

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Social Security Numbers   California

15. AvMed Breach Exposes 200,000 Customers' Info

    Explore Article internetnews.com (Feb 16 2010) Healthcare , Lastest Data Breaches

    More than 200,000 AvMed Health Plan subscribers are learning that their most sensitive personal information fell into the wrong hands last month after a pair of laptops were stolen from a conference room at the company's Gainesville, Fla. corporate headquarters.
    

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Florida   Gainesville

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