Data Breaches for the first half of 2010
Despite the law stating medical breaches involving more than 500 people must be listed on the Health and Human Services (HHS) breach list, the Identity Theft Resource Center recorded medical breaches which never made the list. Do you know why? The HHS list allows the loophole of “risk of harm” without requiring federal law enforcement verification. One state has reported more than 200 breaches. Most are not included in the Identity Theft Resource Center Breach Report because they did not include sufficient pertinent details regarding the event. Some states now harbor a protected breach list which is not made public at all, or is only accessible by exercising the Freedom of Information Act. Doesn’t this make you wonder why is it all so protected? Read the entire article from the Office of Inadequate Security
http://www.databreaches.net/?p=12436
Tags: computer security, data breaches, data security, electronic health records, Health and Human Services, health Care Fraud, healthcare, ITRC, medical data breaches, medical identity theft
This Entry was posted by Linda Vincent
Wednesday, July 14th, 2010 / Fraud, Health Care Fraud, Identity Theft, Medical IdentityTheft.
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July 17th, 2010 at 12:13 pm
it was very interesting to read.
I want to quote your post in my blog. It can?
And you et an account on Twitter?
July 21st, 2010 at 3:37 pm
yes you may quote me
I am in Twitter as idadvocate