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While cyber crime continues to grow across industries, medical identity theft and medical data breaches are rising at a disproportionate rate. And though all...

March 26, 2014 by ofonseca

The 17th annual Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA) Compliance Institute Conference took place in National Harbor, MD and was attended by healthcare personnel and...

April 26, 2013 by bkrenek

Outsourcing can be risky business. The Ponemon Institute reports that 65% of companies who outsourced work to a vendor have had a data breach...

April 15, 2013 by bkrenek

Since stricter regulations were imposed in 2009, the healthcare industry’s track record on patient data protection and security has made very little improvement according...

January 1, 2013 by Michael Bruemmer

As medical data breaches continue to spike, the federal government is seeking remedies to try and prevent medical identity theft. Nearly 21 million Americans...

November 13, 2012 by Michael Bruemmer

Medical identity theft is no longer some obscure phrase spoken primarily in data security circles. It’s quickly becoming a household term for millions of...

August 21, 2012 by bkrenek

The latest Ponemon Institute Medical Identity Theft survey reflects the classic good news, bad news scenario. The good news is that more consumers understand...

June 26, 2012 by Michael Bruemmer

Don’t expect medical breaches and healthcare fraud to drop off the radar anytime soon. Here’s why. First, the number of breaches in the industry...

May 15, 2012 by bkrenek

Say goodbye to bulky manila folders. Today’s healthcare organizations are zipping through medical histories and writing prescriptions using mobile devices. But the new found...

May 2, 2012 by bkrenek

Experian will be at the annual HCCA 2012 Compliance Institute conference at Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas. This conference offers an important opportunity to...

April 27, 2012 by bkrenek

It’s no secret that healthcare data breaches are steadily on the rise.  As technology has modernized healthcare, it has also made healthcare more vulnerable...

April 3, 2012 by bkrenek

According to Ponemon Institute’s Second Annual Survey on Medical Identity Theft, we estimate that more than 1.49 million Americans have been targeted by this...

April 19, 2011 by lponemon