It may not violate HIPAA to use a patient’s first and last name when staff call patients to come into the exam room from the waiting room, but it can sure cause privacy problems. Read HIV Patients Refused Medical Privacy by the University of California, in Spite … Here’s the background: Alex went to see his…
Month: July 2013
Vermont and North Dakota Amend Breach Notice Laws
Michael Young writes: On May 13, 2013, Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin signed H.513 into law. The new law includes an amendment to Vermont’s Security Breach Notice Act, 9 V.S.A. § 2435. Previously, under § 2435, Vermont-regulated financial institutions were exempt from notifying any Vermont authority in case of a security breach involving personally identifiable data. The new…
UK: Fury as confidential documents found blowing in the wind in Hatfield
Paul Christian reports additional details on a breach mentioned previously on this blog: Confidential documents were found blowing in the wind in Hatfield in “an alarming discovery” by a councillor. The papers, believed to have come from the former county supplies depot in Mount Pleasant Lane, included an employee appraisal form which featured a worker’s…
Breach-related lawsuit against Adventist Health dismissed for lack of subject matter jurisdiction
Law360 reports that Adventist Hospital System/Sunbelt Inc. succeeded in getting a federal court to dismiss a potential class action lawsuit against it. As noted previously on this blog, the lawsuit stemmed from employees at Florida Hospital Celebration selling patient information. Adventist had moved to dismiss Richard Faircloth’s lawsuit on grounds that the federal court lacked…
Quayside Publishing notifies online customers of breach
Customers who ordered from one of Quayside Publishing‘s web sites since the end of April recently received a notice of a breach that was reported to the Vermont Attorney General’s Office: We are writing to notify you of an incident that involved unauthorized access to our web server in which your personal information, including your…
NYS Division of Housing and Community Renewal not always wiping data before selling devices as surplus – Audit
While the NYS Department of State got a clean bill of health on their disposal of devices, the NYS Division of Housing and Community Renewal did not fare as well in an audit of its inventory and disposal procedures. An audit by the NYS Office of the State Comptroller, released on June 25, reports: Division of Housing…