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  • Minnesota debt collector sued over stolen medical data

    Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson filed a lawsuit January 19 against a debt collection agency that she said violated state and federal health privacy laws when it lost a laptop containing patient information from two Minnesota hospitals, according to a press release from the Attorney General’s office.

  • Report: Breaches reach 19 million records

    Covered entities and business associates reported a total of 385 breaches of unsecured PHI affecting 500 or more individuals since OCR issued the August 2009 interim final breach notification regulation under HITECH, according to a report released by Redspin. This included more than 19 million records.

  • Nurse pleads guilty to Medicare fraud

    Jorge Pineiro, a registered nurse in Miami who worked for ABC Home Health Care Inc. and Florida Home Health Care Providers, Inc., pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit healthcare fraud, according to a January 24 Department of Justice press release.

  • Physician referral patterns ripe for scrutiny

    When is a general practitioner's referral of a patient to a specialist an appropriate one that will likely lead to better outcomes, and when is it a categorical waste of money? Even worse, when is it something that provokes an unnecessarily harmful intervention involving more radiation, more specialists, false positives, or even useless surgery?

  • HHS task force: Consider privacy, security with text messages

    The government should take a better look at privacy and security concerns before it encourages and helps develop health text messaging and mobile health programs, an HHS task force recommends.

  • Dealing with data breaches

    You pick up the phone and someone tells you that a laptop containing thousands of patient files was left behind on the morning train. Or you learn that your own employees have been snooping into sensitive patient records for fun and profit. Or you discover that, for some odd reason, patient records have been posted on a completely unrelated public website for anyone to see, and they’ve been there for nearly a year.

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