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...
April 3rd, 2008
f there’s one person whose medical records you wouldn’t want to lose track of, it’s the co-chairman of the congressional caucus that focuses on...
March 26th, 2008
A CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield dental HMO accidentally exposed personal information, including Social Security numbers, of about 75,000 members on a public Web site last...
March 26th, 2008
Almost 2,500 patients taking part in a federal medical trial recently had their private health data compromised when a researcher’s laptop computer was stolen....
March 24th, 2008
The National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health, informed patients on March 20 that a laptop computer containing...
October 1st, 2007
Cases of identity theft steal headlines, but simple curiosity is the biggest culprit for security breaches inside hospitals and practices. Here’s how to prevent...
August 17th, 2007
Last April when a network technician working for Bellevue, Wash.-based Web content-management company Verus failed to set up a firewall properly as part of...
August 15th, 2007
The latest fad in American health care is to give discounts to workers who are healthy. Many corporate CEOs and their benefits department managers...
July 31st, 2007
The co-defendant in an extensive identity-theft scheme that targeted hospital patients was sentenced today to two years and three months in prison. Linda D....
July 21st, 2007
A government contractor handling sensitive health information for 867,000 U.S. service members and their families acknowledged yesterday that some of its employees sent unencrypted...
