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View Post: Truthwillrise's Weblog
20 Nov 2009 by truthwillrise  
The insurance company informed the state attorney general's office and the Department of Insurance Wednesday of the security breach that puts personal medical records at risk in a historic lapse, the first of its kind to be publicly ...
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View Post: Personal Health Information Privacy » AZ Attorney General to ...
7 hours ago by Dissent  
A company spokeswoman said the missing hard drive contains Social Security numbers, medical records and health information going back to 2002 for 1.5 million past and present customers in four states: Arizona, Connecticut, ...
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View Post: Business and convergent technologies 11 – who owns our data and ...
18 Nov 2009 by Tim Platt  
The Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act is a response to that while confronting the way personal medical records information can also be used to cause harm by denying essential and even lifesaving healthcare. ...
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View Post: The Medical Quack: Medicare Extends Personal Health Record Pilot ...
19 Nov 2009 by The Medical Quack  
Phoenix, AZ (PRWEB) November 19, 2009 -- Medicare PHR Choice, a pilot program that provides beneficiaries with direct input of claims data into online personal health records (PHRs), will continue through December 2010 according to ...
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View Post: Computer Forensics Blog: Health Net loses medical records of 1.5 ...
20 Nov 2009 by Steve B  
What they discovered was that information including Social Security numbers. medical records and health information for about 1.5 million customers from Arizona, Connecticut, New Jersey and New York was on the drive. ... Connecticut's Attorney General Richard Blumenthal said, "Health Net's incomprehensible foot-dragging demonstrates shocking disregard for patients' financial security, as well as loss of their highly sensitive and confidential personal health information. ...
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View Post: Unfettered Letters
18 Nov 2009 by letters editor  
Ms. Gamm would deny government access to personal health records in order to provide people at risk with necessary health care. This would, I assume, include reporting and treating persons with HIV-AIDS and other contagious diseases who are a risk to the community at large. ... "The same groups that have been protesting vehemently for years to keep government out of their private lives now advocate unfettered access to medical records by that same group." ...
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View Post: Security for Personal Information stored in Electronic Medical ...
11 Nov 2009 by jgershater  
Security for Personal Information stored in Electronic Medical Records. Security and privacy of electronic personal health information entails the same concepts as security for other electronic data, such as personal financial data. ...
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View Post: Health gets personal in the cloud - O'Reilly Radar
20 Nov 2009 by Brian Ahier  
Through Patient Fusion, doctors grant patients instant access to their medical records, medications and immunization history. Updates to the patient's records are available in real-time in the cloud. Patients will also be able to ...
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View Post: Medical Records: Stored in the Cloud, Sold on the Open Market ...
18 Nov 2009 by Russ Ray  
While HIPAA protects your personal healthcare data and mandates that you approve the release of said data to other healthcare professionals and your insurer, it appears that what these outside data management companies are doing is legal, ... When patients visit a physician or hospital, they know that anyone involved in providing their health care can lawfully see their medical records. But unknown to patients, an increasing number of outside vendors that manage ...
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View Post: AZ Attorney General to investigate Health Net
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