Fraudulent charges linked to a breach at the University Book Exchange near East Carolina University continue to show up and the number of irate comments start to pile up. WITN follows up on a breach they reported last week. Almost a month after a security breach was recognized and fixed at a local bookstore near…
Month: February 2011
Ca: Patients' right to privacy breached
The Sun Country Health Region (SCHR) has sent letters of apology to 66 patients whose right to privacy was breached. The SCHR discovered last June that one of its employees improperly reviewed the electronic prescription records of the 66 patients between March 2009 and January 2010. An extensive investigation has been conducted to determine the…
Sensitive and confidential patient health records not adequately protected: Survey
There’s a new Ponemon study out today, “Health Data at Risk in Development: A Call for Data Masking.” I haven’t read it yet, but you can read the press release from Informatica on The Medical News for a quick overview of the survey.