Two affiliated insurance plans serving Medicaid patients in Pennsylvania have reported the loss of an unencrypted portal flash drive with information on 280,000 members.
Healthcare organizations need to improve the methods they use to objectively assess the severity of a security incident and whether it should be reported to comply with the HITECH Act's breach notification rule, one privacy officer says.
In the year since the breach notification rule for personal health records took effect, no major breaches affecting 500 or more individuals have been reported, according to the Federal Trade Commission.
For the second time in recent weeks, organizations with ties to the Mayo Clinic have announced staff firings as a result of inappropriate access to confidential personal health information.
Healthcare organizations need to improve the methods they use to objectively assess the severity of a security incident and whether it should be reported, says David Parks, a privacy officer and attorney.
When it comes to managing relationships with business associates to help with HITECH Act compliance, healthcare organizations could learn some lessons from the banking industry.
New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center says a security breach may have exposed information on 6,800 patients on the Internet in July.
Of the 28 incidents added to the official federal tally of major healthcare information breaches in the past month, two-thirds involved the theft or loss of unencrypted computer devices.
Several healthcare organizations have shared information breach horror stories that are enough to keep security officers awake at night wondering if similar incidents could happen on their turf.
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