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Lucile Packard suffers second data breach in six months

14/06/2013 15:58
Lucile Packard Children's Hospital, a 311-bed facility in Palo Alto, Calif., has suffered its third data breach in four years--and its second in six months--this one potentially effecting 12,900 patients. According to an announcement on the hospital's website, a password-protected, non-functional...

FDA calls for increased health IT cybersecurity efforts

14/06/2013 15:56
With hackers and cyberattacks increasing as threats to medical devices, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration this week published new guidance calling for developers and healthcare facilities to beef up security efforts while creating and using those devices. In its guidelines, the FDA recommended...

Med groups express concern over proposed HIPAA changes

14/06/2013 15:46
A host of medical groups are up in arms over a proposal by the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services in April that potentially would allow protected mental health information to be reported to a federal gun background-check database, according to the Wall Street Journal. The plan would...

The importance of health IT adoption--from a parent's perspective

13/06/2013 18:28
Patient access and engagement have been on my brain of late. Sure, that has a lot to do with the fact I attended both Health Datapalooza and the Health Privacy Summit last week in Washington, D.C.--but it's also due to a recent personal experience. It took place a few weeks ago when I brought my...

U.S. Medicare outlook improves as healthcare costs ease

13/06/2013 18:22
(Reuters) - Slower growth in U.S. healthcare costs improved the budget outlook for the Medicare program for the elderly from last year, but the fortunes of the Social Security pension program have not changed despite a better economy, trustees of the programs said on Friday. The trustees repeated...
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