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Privacy in US’s healthcare system easily breached

 

A report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO), the USA’s equivalent of the UK’s National Audit Office, has shown that over 40% of federal health-insurance contractors and state healthcare agencies have reported a privacy breach involving personal health information in the past two years.

 

Full story in bjhc&im November 2006 (247 words)

 

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