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ANSI and Shared Assessments Launch Initiative to Examine Financial Impact and Harm of Breached Patient Information

Posted on March 23, 2011 by Dissent

Healthcare organizations are struggling with two key concerns today: how to protect patient information and how to better understand the financial harm caused when protected health information (PHI) is lost or stolen. A new project – led by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), via its Identity Theft Prevention and Identity Management Standards Panel (IDSP),…

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ADA Violated When Employer Responds to State Subpoena and Discloses Former Employee's Medical Records

Posted on March 23, 2011 by Dissent

Joseph Lazzarotti writes: The confidentiality of medical records requirement under the Americans with Disability Act (ADA) is violated when an employer discloses a current or former employee’s medical records in response to a state court subpoena absent the employee’s release or some other exception under the ADA, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) recently held in Bennett…

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UK: Security scare as council loses memory stick containing medical info and access codes to the homes of thousands of vulnerable people

Posted on March 22, 2011 by Dissent

The Daily Mail reports: A council has lost a memory stick containing home security codes and medical information for thousands of elderly people.The data device holds the medical details on 4,000 people looked after by Leicester City Council support service as well as 2,000 key codes which can be used to gain access to their…

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OR: Up To 75 VA Patient ID Cards Missing

Posted on March 21, 2011 by Dissent

KPTV reports: Dozens of patients at the Portland Veterans Affairs Medical Center could be at risk for identity theft after their identity cards were lost. Medical center staff say 50 to 75 patient ID cards were lost in late January. The cards were being held by the hospital after they had been returned due to…

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Up To 75 VA Patient ID Cards Missing

Posted on March 21, 2011 by Dissent

KPTV reports: Dozens of patients at the Portland Veterans Affairs Medical Center could be at risk for identity theft after their identity cards were lost. Medical center staff say 50 to 75 patient ID cards were lost in late January. The cards were being held by the hospital after they had been returned due to…

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(follow-up) Leader of Hacker Gang Sentenced to 9 Years For Hospital Malware

Posted on March 18, 2011 by Dissent

Kevin Poulsen reports that Jesse William McGraw, aka “GhostExodus,” has been sentenced for trying to install malware on the computer network at Northern Central Medical Plaza in Dallas, Texas. As reported previously, McGraw worked the medical facility as a night security guard and was caught, in part, because he videotaped himself and uploaded it to…

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