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Cost of Data Breaches Rise

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ZD Net reports that the cost of a data breach has gone up 2.5% from 2007, according to research published by the Ponemon Institute.


Streamlining medical records has been a recurring theme of the Obama administration. Tucked away in the pending economic stimulus legislation, known as the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), is a provision which would create a breach notification requirement for health information breaches.