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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.

  • Q/A: New device pass-through categories

    Q: Will CMS ever approve any new device pass-through categories?

  • Tip: Note physician supervision changes

    CMS finalized two significant changes to the physician supervision requirements as part of the 2012 OPPS Final Rule.

  • 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.