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Hackers Going After Medical Records
Hackers raided a server at the University of California, Berkeley last fall, stealing everything from Social Security numbers to immunization records in an episode that highlights one danger of moving health information from file cabinets to cyberspace, Forbes reports in a first-person account by one of the 160,000 victims. "Stealing medical data has become more attractive to hackers and identity thieves as banks and individuals have become more sophisticated about protecting credit-building information." One consumer group estimates that as many as 12 percent of digital security breaches target the medical industry.

High-Cost Medicare Areas Worry About Looming Cuts
The White House"s pressure to cut soaring healthcare costs is causing action and concern in high cost Medicare areas, especially South Florida.
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Biomarker Of Breathing Control Abnormality Associated With Hypertension And Stroke
A study in the July 1 issue of the journal SLEEP identified a distinct ECG-derived spectrographic phenotype, designated as narrow-band elevated low frequency coupling (e-LFCNB), that is associated with prevalent hypertension, stroke, greater severity of sleep disordered breathing and sleep fragmentation in patients suffering from obstructive sleep apnea (OSA).
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CSC Offers Medicare Secondary Payer Reporting To Health Plans

CSC (NYSE: CSC) announced that it has expanded its FirstPortfolio solution"s business process outsourcing (BPO) capabilities to include fully integrated Medicare Secondary Payer (MSP) reporting for healthcare payers. FirstPortfolio provides users with a collection of applications hosted and maintained by CSC. MSP status reporting, which requires the identification and reporting of all potential Medicare beneficiaries within commercial health plans to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), becomes mandatory for a wide variety of insurers and plan administrators in October 2009. With CSC"s MSP reporting capability, health plan organizations can expand BPO application portfolios to meet implementation timelines and address gaps that may impede compliance with new CMS regulations. "We are pleased to present this timely business capability to the health plan market," said Deward Watts, president of CSC"s Healthcare Group. "This addition to FirstPortfolio provides an end-to-end solution that allows our customers to meet CMS deadlines as well as leverage CSC"s health plan domain knowledge and regulatory and compliance experience." CSC"s Healthcare Group, which serves healthcare providers, health plans, pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturers, and allied industries around the world, is a global leader in transforming the healthcare industry through the effective use of information to improve healthcare outcomes, decision-making and operating efficiency. About CSC CSC is a global leader in providing technology-enabled solutions and services through three primary lines of business. These include Business Solutions & Services, Managed Services Sector and the North American Public Sector. CSC"s advanced capabilities include systems design and integration, information technology and business process outsourcing, applications software development, Web and application hosting, mission support and management consulting. Headquartered in Falls Church, Va., CSC has approximately 92,000 employees and reported revenue of $16.74 billion for the 12 months ended April 3, 2009. CSC


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