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The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (aka the stimulus package) included funds to both implement electronic health records and rules to specifically improve personal health information breach notification rules. It’s ironic, then, that the rush to digitize personal health information...
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The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has released the final rules concerning breach notifications for Personal Health Information (PHI) that were required under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 which was passed in February (otherwise known as the stimulus package). The Department of Health...
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I've been thinking a bit more about the personal health information extortion attempt that's been in the news recently, and which Ken Swinney mentioned in his Keep the snakes at bay post yesterday. If you haven't been following the story, the gist is that a state agency responsible for identifying...