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Blue Button 2.0 Bug Put PHI At Risk

Published on Fri Jan 10, 2020

BB2.0 apps were sharing beneficiaries’ info. A coding bug in Medicare’s Blue Button 2.0 program led to Medicare beneficiary PHI being improperly shared, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services reports. Blue Button 2.0 aims to provide a secure way for beneficiaries to access and share their personal health data in a universal digital format. The problem: “BB2.0 was truncating [...]
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