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BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee, which experienced a health information breach affecting nearly 1 million individuals in 2009, has completed the encryption of all its stored data.
There was good news and bad news in the reporting of major health information breaches in the past month. The good news: Only four incidents were added to the official federal tally. The bad news: One of those incidents affected 400,000 individuals.
An integrated delivery system in Connecticut is taking the extraordinary step of encrypting its clinical databases before launching an ambitious health information exchange effort.
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston is notifying more than 2,000 of its patients about an unusual potential health information breach incident involving a computer virus that transmitted data to an unknown location.
In a second legal action in the wake of a breach incident involving health insurer WellPoint Inc., a California court has announced preliminary approval of a class action settlement.
In one of the largest health information breaches reported so far this year, Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System in South Carolina has notified 400,000 of an incident involving the theft of a desktop computer from an employee's car.
SafeNet CEO Chris Fedde says top executives, not chief information or chief information security officers, should have final say on what data to encrypt.
If you take a close look at the healthcare information breach "wall of shame," you'll notice that maybe, just maybe, we're making some progress this year.
A total of 11 million Americans have been affected by major health information breaches since September 2009. So far in 2011, 2.7 million have been affected by 32 incidents.
Recent hacks have uncovered security vulnerabilities that should have been addressed years ago. "These attacks are going to escalate," says Josh Corman of The 451 Group. But organizations can implement basic steps to make the hackers' job harder.
An unencrypted laptop computer that's missing from the United Kingdom's National Health Service North Central London health authority contained information on 8.63 million people, according to a report on The Sun newspaper's website.
If you need one more reason to take additional steps to prevent health information breaches, here's something to consider. An attorney argues that if breaches, and their high costs, are not brought under control, "I think where we are headed is to an insurance crisis."
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