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Mass General takes $1 million hit for losing 193 patient records
Posted on March 1st, 2011 No commentsFollowing closely on the heels of its first Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) privacy rule fine, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has doled out a $1 million fine against Massachusetts General Hospital for a data breach involving 192 patients begin treated for infectious diseases.
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As HHS Ramps up Health IT, IG Takes Close Look at EHR Security
Posted on January 7th, 2011 No commentsThe Health and Human Services Department’s inspector general plans to take a cold, hard look at the department’s privacy and security policies with a particularly close eye on initiatives of the HITECH Act, which enshrined health IT practices into HHS regulation.
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HHS launches new efforts against medical fraud, identity theft
Posted on November 2nd, 2009 No commentsThe Dept. of Health and Human Services on Oct. 15 released a new tip sheet aimed at helping Medicare beneficiaries deter and detect medical identity theft, as well as health care fraud.
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Wrong fax number leads to Tennesee doctors faxing patient records to Indiana business
Posted on October 2nd, 2009 No commentsTennessee Department of Human Services data loss incident circa 2009-09-28
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HHS secretary speaks to power of healthcare IT in rural communities
Posted on October 1st, 2009 No commentsHealth and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius released a report Thursday on how information technology can improve healthcare for Americans living in rural communities.
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Health data breach notification rule starts Sept. 23
Posted on September 21st, 2009 No commentsA new Health and Human Services Department rule that requires health care organizations to notify patients when their data is disclosed without authorization goes into effect Sept. 23.
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HHS guts health-care breach notification law, groups warn
Posted on September 21st, 2009 No commentsPrivacy and civil rights advocates accused the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services of trying to neuter a landmark data breach notification law for health care organizations that is scheduled to go into effect next week.
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Census Bureau Alert
Posted on September 18th, 2009 No commentsAlert: The Census Bureau does NOT conduct the 2010 Census via email or the Internet.
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HHS urged to rework data breach rule
Posted on September 18th, 2009 No commentsA member of the Health and Human Services Department’s health IT policy committee is urging the agency to revise what she argues is an overly broad and unreliable provision of an otherwise solid interim final rule on data breach …
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Court allows suit against bank for lax security
Posted on September 3rd, 2009 No commentsThe ruling highlights an issue that security analysts have been talking about for a long time: the need by companies to show due diligence in protecting customer data against malicious and accidental compromise. Security analysts have warned that companies that can’t prove they took adequate measures to protect data could find themselves expos…
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