Tag: Medical Data Breach

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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

Our guest blogger this week is Karen Barney of the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC). According to one recent study, more than 19 million...

July 3, 2012 by kbarney

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

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

Today's headlines trumpet yet another high-profile medical data breach, this time through Health Net. This corporate catastrophe reminds us of the increasing hazard of...

March 29, 2011 by bkrenek

Legislation has been introduced in Congress to crack down on Medicare and Medicaid fraud. This legislation comes at a time when incidents of medical...

November 23, 2010 by bkrenek

Recently I addressed the importance of having plans in place to protect personal health information in light of the sharp increase in healthcare data...

September 21, 2010 by bkrenek

Just as the healthcare industry came up to speed on the regulations defined in The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health ("HITECH")...

September 7, 2010 by bkrenek

According to a recent study by the Identity Theft Resource Center, data breaches in the healthcare sector are occurring at a higher rate than...

September 7, 2010 by bkrenek