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Mass. General Hospital Reports Breach Affecting 4,300
Patterson Dental Supply Inc. reported a breach of 4,300 records to its associate Massachusetts General Hospital on February 8, 2016…
Study: Breaches Cost Health Care More than Double Other Industries
According to a recent IBM and Ponemon Institute study, the average cost per stolen data record in the health care industry is more than twice the cost for breaches in any other industry…
OCR Reports Third Largest Breach in 2016
After receiving notification of a stolen laptop potentially affecting 400,000 prisoners in the California corrections system, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) labeled the breach as the third largest in 2016…
Third-Party Software Increases Security Risks for Health Care
Health care organizations face increased security risks because of third-party software use, according to the Office for Civil Rights (OCR)…
HHS Announces New Security Framework to Meet Precision Medicine Initiative
Health and Human Services released information on President Obama’s Precision Medicine Initiative and the framework intended to help secure data contributed for this Initiative…
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