Georgia Patients’ Records Exposed on Web for Weeks
April 11th, 2008
A company hired by the State of Georgia to administer health benefits for low-income patients is sending letters to notify tens of thousands of...
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Still More Health Information Privacy Breaches Come to Light
April 10th, 2008
WellPoint said Tuesday that the personal information of about 128,000 members was exposed online over the past year, AP/BusinessWeek reports. The exposed information might...
Celebrity Medical Records Hacked: Are You at Risk?
April 10th, 2008
It’s not surprising that hospital employees would be interested in the medical records of celebrities like Maria Shriver, Farrah Fawcett, Britney Spears and George...
WellPoint probing data breach for 130,000 members
April 9th, 2008
Health insurer WellPoint Inc is investigating the cause of a breach involving protected health information for about 130,000 members, the company said on Wednesday.
The...
Recent Data Breaches Spark Criticism of Medical Privacy Laws
April 9th, 2008
In response to recent data breaches, privacy advocates are calling for changes to medical privacy rules to allow patients to control who can access...
Effectiveness of medical privacy law is questioned
April 9th, 2008
Despite 34,000 complaints of violations in the last five years, the federal act has resulted in only a few prosecutions, and no civil fines...
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,...
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...
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....