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[ Thursday, July 07, 2011 ]

HHS' Wall of Shame: some highlights of the HHS website for large data breaches:

11,404,950 fellow citizens’ PHI breached (thats about equal to the population of the entire state of Ohio)

292 reported breaches to HHS by Covered Entities

58 Business Associates accomplices involved/culpable

"Harm" STILL self-determined by CEs versus California law!

Top 5 Data Breachers and their "havoc" on us:

Health Net, Inc. of CA and IBM, their Business Associate – 1,900,000

NYC Health & Hospitals Corp North Bronx Healthcare Network - 1,700,000

AvMed, Inc. - 1,220,000

BCBS TN - 1,023,209

South Shore Hospital - 800,000

Hat tip: Bob Chaput of Clearwater Compliance

Jeff [9:48 AM]

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