Author: Dissent

Glenn Nyback reports in the Staten Island Advance: Computer equipment stolen from an administrative office in Rosebank in December contained personal information about 88,000 patients who have been treated at Staten Island University Hospital. After four months with no arrests, hospital administrators are just now beginning the process of sending letters to patients whose names,…

Kirk J. Nahra’s talk on “Top Privacy and Security Developments for the Health Care Industry” at the 15th National HIPAA Summit is available for free online viewing.

An editorial in the Detroit Free Press: There’s a lesson for state lawmakers in a dispute brewing between a tiny Van Buren County school district and the Michigan Education Association, the state’s largest teachers union. The Lawton district and the MEA are at odds over the limits of a recent Michigan law allowing school districts…

Just to keep our records and chronologies complete, I am posting this breach that occurred in December 2007; notification was made in January 2008, but it just came to our attention: A folder stolen from the vehicle of an employee of Johns Hopkins contained sensitive information on 190 former and current members of an outpatient…

Jordan Press writes in The Kingston Whig-Standard: A Kingston woman who had to hand over personal medical records to get on an Air Canada flight home was expected to finally arrive some time last night. Patricia Whiteside-Bell stood in line ready to head through the metal detectors at the airport in Fort McMurray, Alta., Saturday…

Dan Whitcomb reports: A former hospital worker implicated in the theft of medical records for “Charlie’s Angels” star Farrah Fawcett, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s wife and some 60 other celebrities and selling them to the media has been indicted on federal charges. Lawanda Jackson, a former low-level administrative specialist at UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles,…