Nicole Lewis reports: Verizon has added healthcare identity standards for accessing electronic health records (EHRs) and health information exchanges, as well as credentials for electronic prescribing and mobile connectivity, to its Verizon Universal Identity Services (UIS)-Healthcare cloud-based service. UIS-Healthcare provides an identity ecosystem for healthcare professionals seeking to securely access and exchange data over robust…
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Veriphyr Survey Finds More Than 70 Percent of Healthcare Providers Suffered Privacy Breach in Past 12 Months
Saw this press release today and thought it worth mentioning here for its statistics: Veriphyr, a leading provider of Identity and Access Intelligence, today announced the results of new survey on Protected Health Information (PHI) privacy breaches. According to the findings, more than 70 percent of the organizations in the study have suffered one or…
Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust signs undertaking
There was no press release or fanfare, but the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office web site indicates that Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust has signed an undertaking with the ICO over the loss of an individual’s medical records. According to the undertaking: The personal data was recognised as missing when the data controller received a subject…
Prized Patient information open to Web-Highest Number of Security Breaches in Healthcare – Medical Providers ??
Mohit Kohli provides some analysis of breaches: The below chart represent highest number of security breaches happing in Healthcare sector of US. The immediate question arise to everyone mind; is it because of low security standard or control available? This is not True!!! There are strong controls like HIPPA (sic) to address security requirement, but…
VA Caribbean Healthcare System to Provide Free Credit Monitoring to Veterans
This was posted on the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs web site and dated May 20, 2011: San Juan, PR – The VA Caribbean Healthcare System is notifying and offering one year of free credit monitoring to 1,691 Veterans and staff whose personal information was left unsecured in an unrestricted area of the San Juan…
HealthCare Partners Notifies Patients of Breach of Unsecured Personal Information
From their press release, dated June 3: HealthCare Partners notified 15,727 patients of a breach of unsecured personal patient protected health information after discovering, on Monday, April 18, 2011, the theft of nineteen new computers from the medical group’s offices at 675 Arroyo Parkway in Pasadena and at 2600 Redondo Avenue in Long Beach. HealthCare…