Karin Spaink summarizes and translates: Erasmus MC, the biggest academic hospital in The Netherlands, puts quite some effort in security awareness and data hygiene. (They participated in my September 2006 Electronic Patient Files test, and did relatively well; also, they used the results of my test to again stress the need for data hygiene among…
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HHS proposes new privacy, security rules
Diana Manos reports: Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced Thursday new proposed privacy and security rules and resources…. The proposed rules come as part of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, enacted as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, to ensure broader…
Updates to HHS/OCR Site reveal seven more new breaches (updated)
HHS has added some more breach reports to its site. Most of them had not been reported in the mainstream media: University Health System State: Nevada Approx. # of Individuals Affected: 7,526 Date of Breach: 6/11/10 Type of Breach: Theft Location of Breached Information: Network Server Comment: This one we knew about, but not the…
Hospital Explains its Breach Decisions
Joseph Goedert reports: Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center in Bronx, N.Y., recently notified 130,495 patients of a breach of their protected health information after seven CDs a business associate FedEx’d were lost (see story). In a statement to Health Data Management, the hospital, part of NYC Health and Hospitals Corp., explains why the data…
Hospital Explains its Breach Decisions (updated)
Joseph Goedert reports: Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center in Bronx, N.Y., recently notified 130,495 patients of a breach of their protected health information after seven CDs a business associate FedEx’d were lost (see story). In a statement to Health Data Management, the hospital, part of NYC Health and Hospitals Corp., explains why the data…
R.I. ACLU sues state over rules governing medical records
Felice J. Freyer reports: A suit filed [last] Tuesday alleges that newly adopted regulations fail to adequately protect patient privacy under the state’s developing system for exchanging electronic medical records. The suit by the Rhode Island affiliate of the American Civil Liberties Union says that regulations developed by the state Department of Health are full…