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Stories about: medical records

University of California Settles HIPAA Violations for $865K The University of California at Los Angeles Health System (UCLAHS) has agreed to pay $865,500 in order to settle two potential violations under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA).The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) launched a... 11 July 2011 13:19 GMT Pen and Paper Still Indispensable to Health Care Providers A new investigation has revealed that health care providers, doctors and nurses have not yet completely let go of pen and paper while they are on duty. In addition to the electronic medical records they keep, which show the full data about any patient, they still resort to notes, index cards, post-its on computer scr... 21 July 2009 13:31 GMT Medical Records of Thousands of UK Prisoners Compromised A USB stick containing medical information on 6,360 prisoners incarcerated at Her Majesty’s Prison Preston has been lost by a worker from the Central Lancashire Primary Care Trust. Trust representatives explained that the memory stick was used to backup the database of the prison's clinic. “We are ta... 13 January 2009 04:07 GMT