[ 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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