Figure at center of UCLA medical records flap was just ‘nosy’

April 9th, 2008
The hospital employee who says she improperly looked at celebrities’ files says she meant no harm. The UCLA Medical Center employee who allegedly pried into...

Nearly half of data breaches not disclosed: report

April 9th, 2008
Only 10% of healthcare leaders in a recent survey indicated their organizations would notify patients in the event of a data breach affecting them,...

California Hospital Faces Sanctions After Workers Wrongly Looked at Patient Records

April 8th, 2008
The private records of more than 60 patients, including the actress Farrah Fawcett and the state’s first lady, Maria Shriver, were improperly viewed by...

More Snooping Into UCLA Medical Records

April 7th, 2008
California first lady Maria Shriver is among more than 30 celebrities and other high-profile patients who had their confidential records breached at UCLA Medical...

Selling the bitter EMR pill (HIMSS meeting)

April 7th, 2008
A few days after the University of California Medical Center in Irvine went live with its new electronic medical record system, a letter arrived...

Governor says his medical records were accessed, too

April 7th, 2008
The governor says unauthorized people have looked at his hospital files, just as someone at UCLA examined the records of his wife, Maria Shriver....

The Already Big Thing on the Internet: Spying on Users

April 5th, 2008
In 1993, the dawn of the Internet age, the liberating anonymity of the online world was captured in a well-known New Yorker cartoon. One...

Fawcett’s cancer file breached

April 3rd, 2008
The incident occurred months before UCLA hospital employees were caught snooping in Britney Spears’ files. Months before UCLA Medical Center caught staffers snooping in the...

Barton health records stolen and he’s ticked

April 3rd, 2008
Rep. Joe Barton revealed Thursday that he is one the heart patients whose medical records were on an unencrypted laptop stolen from a National...

Rep. Barton Seeks Probe In Theft of Computer: Energy Panel Member Says His Medical Data Were in Stolen Laptop

April 3rd, 2008
Rep. Joe Barton (R-Tex.), the ranking minority member on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, revealed yesterday that he is among the approximately 3,000...