Monthly Archives: July 2012

Following Procedures is needed

Better practices needed As these and numerous other incidents reveal, the healthcare industry needs to take steps to improve its data management practices. “No matter how good you make the technology, we’ll never get the risk down to zero. But … Continue reading

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Data breaches plaguing medical industry

In April 2011, a university alerted the ICO that one of its students had acquired a hard drive found to contain data originating from the hospital trust. It was eventually concluded that the hospital trust employee had smuggled out at … Continue reading

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Harddrives should be shredded?

“Failure to destroy data costs British hospital There are few pieces of information more personal and sensitive than financial and medical records. Aside from being private, this data also has the potential to be used to commit identity theft, fraud … Continue reading

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Are you of the 20 percent group?

The latest report from Forrester Research … ” While there is a recognition that records management is a core business process in any company, only 20 per cent of companies would be “very confident” that they could meet eDiscovery or … Continue reading

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