Information Protection and Security

Connecticut's attorney general is looking for tougher protection for healthcare providers after records, which could be useful to identity thieves, were lost.
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A number of insurance products protect against loss arising from IT-related risks.

The head of an Indian outsourcing company has been arrested for selling confidential medical records of patients treated at one of Britain's top private hospitals.

Flaws 'could potentially lead to the exposure of sensitive or confidential user information during transactions,' according to new report from Cenzic.
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The Personal Data Privacy and Security Act was approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee.
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Each year we issue a reminder regarding the need to protect personal confidential information to which we have been granted access in order to fulfill the requirements of our job functions.  The protection of this information, also known as “Non-Public Personal Information” (NPPI), is mandated by federal and state law, as well as Rutgers policy (e.g., Rutgers Policy 50.3.9,

Dear Colleagues,

Each year we issue a reminder regarding the need to protect personal
confidential information to which we have been granted access in order
to fulfill the requirements of our job functions. The protection of
this information, also known as "Non-Public Personal Information"
(NPPI), is mandated by federal and state law, as well as Rutgers policy
(e.g., Rutgers Policy 50.3.9, http://policies.rutgers.edu).

All units and staff members that create, store, or transmit such
information are required to do so in a manner which protects NPPI.

It’s the NPPI we have to worry about. 

Computerworld - Personally identifiable information on about 68,000 members of CalOptima, a Medicaid managed care plan serving Orange County, Calif., may have been compromised after several CDs containing the information went missing earlier this month.