Poll of the Week - Public Data Dispute
How much of your track record as a physician should the public have access to?
The Public Use Data File is designed to provide data for statistical analysis only and does not contain physician’s names and addresses. But after a journalist used it to help him identify a physician by name, the file was removed from the Web.
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HIPAA highlights: 2 disturbing class actions, OCR risk analysis enforcement
April 24th 2025Two class-action lawsuits targeting the University of Maryland Medical Center and the University of Kansas Health System for years-long cyberstalking and unauthorized access to protected health information spotlight massive HIPAA risk-analysis failures and underscore the urgent need for stronger health care cybersecurity safeguards.
