Sun.Jul 15, 2018

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The Cost of a Healthcare Data Breach is $408 Per Stolen Record, 3X the Industry Average

Health Populi

The cost of a healthcare data breach is $408, nearly three-times the cross-industry average, revealed in the 2018 Cost of a Data Breach Study: Global Overview , from IBM Security and the Ponemon Institute. The average cost per lost or stolen record across all sectors is $148, Ponemon gauged. If you track cybersecurity and data breaches, Ponemon Institute is a go-to resource; I’ve discussed their research here in Health Populi on hacked medical information as a new-normal.

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Better Late Than Early? The First Mover Disadvantage

Digital Health

I’m sick. I have some nasty bronchitis thing and it sucks. There is nothing worse than a sick healthcare industry person. We are the worst patients ever because we know all the things that can go wrong and we know all the ways we can make ourselves worse. And that makes us even crankier than […].

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L.A. Care Health Plan is committing $31M to recruit primary care doctors

FierceHealthIT

Publicly operated L.A. Care Health Plan has a new strategy in addressing a primary care physician shortage in Los Angeles. The insurer will commit $31 million to recruit doctors, putting money toward overcoming the financial hurdles that keep physicians from choosing smaller clinics over larger health system players.

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Save the date: Facebook patient privacy scandal – important #BCSM Twitter chat Monday 9pm ET

Society for Participatory Medicine

Save the date: 9 pm Eastern time. #BCSM Twitter chat on the latest Facebook privacy scandal. This time the data leaked is from a patient group. FB says it’s a nothingburger. What do you think? Facebook has quite a record of epic fails on privacy. The poster shown here (click to enlarge) was published in 2012, years before the horrendous Cambridge Analytica scandal around the 2016 US elections.

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HIPAA Compliance: Can Your Organization Avoid Costly Government Penalties and Fines?

Colington Consulting was established in 2013 and helps organizations achieve HIPAA compliance and ensures clients stay current with the latest enforcement trends. We provide a full range of HIPAA compliance services and consulting. What separates us from our competitors is our knowledge of HIPAA compliance regulations and their application to each of our client’s particular scenarios and requirements.

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Fitch: Risk adjustment freeze won’t hurt credit ratings for the largest insurers

FierceHealthIT

Despite being owed hundreds of millions of dollars through the federal risk adjustment program, the nation's top insurers, with capital to spare, aren't likely to take a financial hit, Fitch Ratings said on Friday. Smaller CO-OPs might not fare as well, according to one expert.

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