As an update on a breach reported earlier this month (here), Pamela Lewis Dolan of amednews.com reports:
Meanwhile, Impulse Monitoring, a Columbia, Md., company that provides onsite and Web-based monitoring of neurological systems for patients undergoing spinal and brain-related injuries, is denying any responsibility in a case involving the June 6 dumping of several boxes of data in a church parking lot in Nashville, Tenn.
The data included checks, billing statements, medical records and employee payroll information belonging to NVMS, a monitoring business that declared bankruptcy in 2008. Impulse purchased some of that company’s assets in 2009, but it said those assets did not include data on former patients.
Janine Gregory, general counsel for Impulse, said some personal information for former NVMS employees now employed by Impulse might have been included in the dumped records. She had no further information about the case.
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