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Hospital Security Programs Ailing, Study Says
www.darkreading.com Security consultant's warning: Hospitals can be dangerous to your personal information. From 2006-2007, more than 1.5 million patients' personal information was exposed through hospitals alone, according to a study released earlier this week by research firm HIMSS Analytics and Kroll Fraud Solutions, a risk management firm. That doesn't count insurance companies, pharmaceutical companies, or individual doctors' offices. And those are only the breaches we know about. Some 44 percent of hospitals that experienced a breach last year did not inform the patients whose records were affected, according to the study.
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