New Law Floods California With Medical Data Breach

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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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