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New Law Floods California With Medical Data Breach
From: bradnel at gmail.com (brad)
Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2009 21:56:00 -0600
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/07/health-breaches/ New Law Floods California With Medical Data Breach Reports By Kim Zetter Email Author July 9, 2009 | 3:24 pm California officials have received more than 800 reports of health data breaches in the first five months after a new state law went into effect January 1. The law requires health care organizations in California to report suspected incidents of intentional and unintentional unauthorized breaches of a patients personally identifiable health information to the California Department of Public Health. The agency, however, says it was surprised by the large number of reports it received in such a short period, according to the Journal of the American Health Information Management Association, and expect that number to increase dramatically as organizations become more familiar with the reporting procedures. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.pauldotcom.com/pipermail/pauldotcom/attachments/20090709/e4a47cb8/attachment.htm
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