The University of Rochester Medical Center joined in the parade of large PHI security breaches two separate times in 2010.
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The Ever-Lengthening Parade of PHI Security Breaches – The New Paper Chase of Four Massachusetts Community Hospitals
By Michael Kline on
Posted in Security Breach Notification
This blog has been reporting on the effects on providers, insurers and others of the HIPAA/HITECH statutes and regulations that require public disclosure of breaches of unsecured Protected Health Information ("PHI"). While the greatest attention under HIPAA/HITECH has been on electronic health records ("EHR"), the increasing inventory of billions of hard copy pages…
An Update: Physicians and Lawyers Successfully Trump (At Least for Now) Compliance with the Red Flags Rule
By Michael Kline on
Posted in Medical Identity Theft
On May 28, 2010, William H. Maruca, editor of this blog, reported in a post entitled Red Flag Reprieve – Déjà vu All Over Again that, under pressure from Congress, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) had agreed to postpone enforcement of its “Red Flags Rule” until January 1, 2011.
On June 1, 2010, …