New Law Floods California With Medical Data Breach Reports

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http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/07/health-breaches/

New Law Floods California With Medical Data Breach Reports
By Kim Zetter Email Author
July 9, 2009 |  3:24 pm

California officials have received more than 800 reports of health data 
breaches in the first five months after a new state law went into effect 
January 1.

The law requires health care organizations in California to report 
suspected incidents of intentional and unintentional unauthorized breaches 
of a patients personally identifiable health information to the California 
Department of Public Health.

The agency, however, says it was surprised by the large number of reports 
it received in such a short period, according to the Journal of the 
American Health Information Management Association, and expect that number 
to increase dramatically as organizations become more familiar with the 
reporting procedures.

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