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Hospitals ranked sixth in industry for serious injuries
In the first year of a new reporting requirement, medical and surgical hospitals in select states reported 221 serious injuries to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
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CDC, FDA sound alarm on recurrent problems in reprocessing
Warning that continuing infection control lapses are endangering patients, the CDC and the FDA recently issued a joint alert calling for healthcare facilities to review policies and practices in cleaning and processing reusable medical devices.
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Can you teach doctors to improve patient satisfaction?
A study in the Journal of Hospital Medicine may give hope to physicians and the hospitals where they work that they can learn the skills needed to improve the scores related to their interactions in the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems surveys.
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Premera Blue Cross says 11 million records breached
Boston-based health insurer Premera Blue Cross announced recently that a cyberattack might have exposed medical data and financial information of 11 million customers.
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No date yet for OCR’s HIPAA audits
The Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) still has not set a date for when the next round of HIPAA audits, originally planned for fall 2014, will take place.
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Anthem refuses audit by Office of Inspector General before and after massive HIPAA breach
After all the negative press that Anthem suffered when reporting a HIPAA breach that affected 80 million customers, one might think they would avoid more bad publicity. But the health insurer is under fire for refusing to let the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), the agency overseeing the federal employee health benefits program, audit its IT security.
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Good computer logs critical to detecting breach
A detailed record of who accessed data, when, and how often might be the only way an organization can trace the source of a HIPAA breach.
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Blue Cross Blue Shield employees charged with taking and sharing data screen shots
Eleven people have been charged after a Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan (BCBSM) employee allegedly printed and shared screen shots of more than 5,000 subscriber profiles. The 11 people are charged with identity theft and credit card fraud, in what some observers are calling an example of how criminals can get past even the best HIPAA security measures.
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Premera Blue Cross says 11 million records breached
Boston-based health insurer Premera Blue Cross announced recently that a cyberattack might have exposed medical data and financial information of 11 million customers.
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No date yet for OCR’s HIPAA audits
The Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) still has not set a date for when the next round of HIPAA audits, originally planned for fall 2014, will take place.