EMR Data Theft Booming

March 26th, 2010

Fraud resulting from exposure of electronic medical records has risen from 3% in 2008 to 7% in 2009, a 112% increase, researcher says.

Fox News Interview: Dangers of Electronic Medical Records

March 26th, 2010

Watch this video to see Patient Privacy Rights’ Founder and Chair speaks with Fox News about Health IT and our Do Not Disclose Petition Watch...

August 4th, 2009

See the WSJ Article: New Epidemic Fears: Hackers Securing health records in small doctor’s offices and clinics is not easy: small offices can’t...

May 8th, 2009

The FBI and Virginia State Police are searching for hackers who demanded that the state pay them a $10 million ransom by Thursday for...

December 15th, 2008

Internet security is broken, and nobody seems to know quite how to fix it. Despite the efforts of the computer security industry and a half-decade...

October 20th, 2008

It’s been a decade since federal legislation called for the creation of a unique patient identifier — a number carried by each American linking...

August 29th, 2008

Health agency takes down online databases after a study reveals new analysis could confirm identities.

July 11th, 2008

With over 10,000 magazines published in the US, I rarely have time to read all of them. But I do make an effort to...

June 6th, 2008

The chance of downloading malicious code from a Web site has increased 41 percent in the past year, according to a recent study of...

May 8th, 2008

Web firm Finjan discovered a “crimeserver” in Malaysia with more than 1.4GB of stolen data that had been amassed in just three weeks. Even more...