A joint survey by IT outsourcing service provider Harvey Nash and professional services firm KPMG found that one-third of health care chief information officers reported they would still be on the journey to compliance with the new EU General Data Protection Regulation, Becker's Hospital Review reports. The survey included nearly 4,000 CIOs and technology leaders across 84 countries. Meanwhile, in the U.S., San Francisco–based health care facilities operator Dignity Health filed a disclosure form with the Department of Health and Human Services that revealed the company suffered an accidental email breach impacting 55,947 patients. New York suspended a former nurse at the University of Rochester Medical Center for violating the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act after the nurse admitted to disclosing the personal health information of more than 3,000 patients when she transferred employers.
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