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ANNOUNCE: Breach news moving to DataBreaches.net

Posted on January 1, 2009 by Dissent

Happy New Year! Starting today, all healthcare-related breach news stories will be posted to our new companion web site, DataBreaches.net. For your convenience, you can subscribe to the news feed from that site.

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Happy New Year and Welcome!

Posted on January 1, 2009 by Dissent

Whether you’ve migrated over from PogoWasRight.org, PHIprivacy.net, or just stumbled across this site, welcome and Happy New Year! This site is devoted to reported breaches involving PII or PHI.  PogoWasRight.org and PHIprivacy.net will continue to cover discussions of privacy breaches as well as other aspects of privacy news, but if you are looking for reports…

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Company faces privacy probe into health records found on Ottawa street

Posted on December 31, 2008October 24, 2024 by Dissent

  Ontario’s privacy commissioner is launching an investigation into how patients’ sensitive medical records ended up being blown around a downtown Ottawa street Wednesday. Ann Cavoukian said she alerted CML Healthcare immediately after hearing that an Ottawa man had found the papers on O’Connor Street, outside a medical centre housing a CML medical imaging clinic….

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NM: Legislature to take another look at digital medical records

Posted on December 31, 2008October 24, 2024 by Dissent

Trip Jennings reports about legislation dealing with EMRs: […] But with changes in how medicine is practiced, there are also unresolved questions, in particular as they relate to privacy, says Bob Mayer, the chief information officer at the New Mexico Department of Health. And Mayer and others hope that state lawmakers will pass a law…

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FL: Private Medical Records 'Found In Garbage'

Posted on December 31, 2008October 24, 2024 by Dissent

Erich Spivey reports: What happens inside these walls, at Dr. Anjali Pathak’s office, is supposed to remain private. But pages upon pages of un-shredded medical documents from Dr. Pathak’s Southside counseling office arrived here at First Coast News. An unsigned note reads, “Patient’s psychiatric records found in garbage.” […] All total, we found personal information…

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Rapper DMX pleads guilty to drug, theft charges

Posted on December 30, 2008October 24, 2024 by Dissent

The Associated Press reports: Rapper DMX has reached a plea deal on multiple drug possession, theft and animal cruelty charges. […] Authorities alleged that DMX gave a false name and Social Security number when being treated at a Scottsdale hospital in April. He was indicted on felony charges of theft and taking someone’s identity.

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