Today, HIMSS released a new report, 2009 HIMSS Analytics Report: Evaluating HITECH’s Impact on Healthcare Privacy and Security. Commissioned by ID Experts, HIMSS surveyed senior information technology (IT) executives, Chief Security Officers, Chief Medical Information Officers (CMIOs), Chief Information Security Officers and Chief Privacy Officers at hospitals throughout the United States.They also surveyed business associates…
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Webinar on Tuesday: Taking a Pulse on HITECH, Are Hospitals and Business Associates Ready?
From HIMSS: Taking a Pulse on HITECH, Are Hospitals and Business Associates Ready? Date: 11/17/2009 2:00:00 PM-3:00:00 PM Registration Information Description: Webinar Times 2:00 pm Eastern Standard Time 1:00 pm Central Standard Time 12:00 pm Mountain Standard Time 11:00 am Pacific Standard Time Session Abstract This webinar will discuss the findings from a survey of…
IN: Boxes of medical files found abandoned
Tom Moor reports: An agent with the Indiana attorney general’s office removed 21 boxes of medical records from a downtown office building Friday that contain the personal information of hundreds of local people. The boxes, consisting of thousands of sheets of paper, contain patients’ Social Security numbers, addresses, phone numbers, diagnoses and prescriptions. […] Although…
CT AG “appalled” at delay in Anthem data theft
The state attorney general is demanding Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield of Connecticut provide more answers and identity-theft protection for nearly 19,000 health professionals whose confidential data was on a stolen laptop computer. Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, at a press conference today, said Anthem and one of its Blue Cross Blue Shield affiliates may have…
A note on the Anthem Blue Cross breach
Last week, several news sources such as WMUR reported that Anthem Blue Cross was notifying 10,000 healthcare professionals in New Hampshire that their personal information was on a stolen laptop. That news story was correct, but some sites seem to have picked up the story as if it was a new incident or breach. New…
Court: Surviving spouse is "personal representative"
Court opinion that the surviving spouse is a personal representative of the deceased for purposes of HIPAA. Alvista Healthcare Center v. Miller Supreme Court of Georgia Decided: November 2, 2009 CARLEY, Presiding Justice Mary Miller is the surviving spouse of Stanton Miller, who resided in a nursing care facility owned and operated by Alvista Healthcare…