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GovInfoSecurity HealthInfoSec) • April 30, 2021     The Wyoming health department is the latest entity to experience a PHI leak on GitHub. Recent incidents involving inadvertent exposure of patient data on GitHub, a software development and version control platform designed for collaboration, point to the need to ensure that data loss prevention tools are implemented, available security controls are leveraged and employees are made aware of the risks involved in using internet-facing platforms. In the most recent i...

John R. Boehm HCSC EXECS SEE BIG RAISES: Top brass at Blue Cross of Illinois' parent company got big raises last year, as health insurers emerged largely unscathed from the economic fallout of a pandemic that hammered other segments of the health care industry. Maurice Smith, who took the helm last June, got a 63 percent boost to $5.9 million, while longtime board Chairman Milton Carroll's pay jumped 81 percent to $8.9 million. Carroll, an energy industry executive who has served as HCSC's board chairman since 2002, collected far more than his counterparts at comparable publicly traded healt...