Entries from Oracle IRM, the official blog tagged with 'healthcare'
Laptop stolen with 39,000 Blue Cross physicians information
Once again the health care industry is struggling to maintain control over sensitive information. The Boston Globe reported this week that the largest health insurer in Massachusetts, the Blue Cross and Blue Shield association, had to warn 39,000 of...
Kaiser Permanente becomes another healthcare data loss casulty
A news report in the San Francisco bay area has brought attention to Kaiser warning nearly 30,000 employees of a data breach involving their names, addresses and social security numbers. Infact a handful of employees have already reported incidents of...
Is your private health information safe anymore?
It seems that information about your health care activities just isn't safe any more. The news is being inundated with example after example of sensitive patient information being lost and stolen. Just today, in one day, i've been made aware...
More personal data lost in health care
It seems to be happening every week, sensitive information is being lost from health care organizations. This time email is the culprit. BlueCross & BlueShield of Louisiana have had to publicly announce details of an incident where a document was...
Protecting confidential patient data
A recent article in the Teesdale Mercury reports, unfortunately, another instance of patient data falling into the wrongs hands. The press is constantly reporting issues of confidential patient information being hacked, lost, stolen, misused. This highlights a common problem...
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