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Ca: Privacy commissioner at 'impasse' with SGI

Posted on January 5, 2011 by Dissent

Saskatchewan’s information and privacy commissioner says Saskatchewan Government Insurance is collecting vast amounts of personal health information and needs to do a better job of protecting people’s privacy. That SGI is “over-collecting” is one of Gary Dickson’s conclusions after dealing with three privacy complaints about the Crown corporation. The complaints concerned people who made claims…

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UK: Scandal of computer snooping by public servants includes medical information

Posted on January 5, 2011 by Dissent

Jack Blanchard reports the results of a freedom of information request on police in Yorkshire, UK. Revelations concerning non-medical incidents are posted to PogoWasRight, but here are the medically related incidents: The cases include… a doctor in Doncaster caught looking at a colleague’s medical records. At one hospital, in Rotherham, a cleaner was caught only…

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Why Are Health Data Leaking Online? Bad Software, Study Says

Posted on January 4, 2011 by Dissent

Jennifer Valentino-DeVries reports: Hard-to-use software is behind the leakage of sensitive health data online, according to a study by Dartmouth researchers published in December. Health documents with sensitive patient information can be found in “peer-to-peer” networks, which people typically use to share music files and the like. The programs used to navigate these networks often…

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KCI notifies some patients that employee misused their payment cards

Posted on January 1, 2011 by Dissent

On December 21, KCI (Kinetic Concepts, Inc.) Health Care Compliance notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office of a security breach involving fraud.  An employee in their Texas call center  with authorized access to a database containing customers’ payment card data had reportedly misused the information of “several” customers to make purchases in the San Antonio area….

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KCI notifies some patients that employee misused their payment cards

Posted on January 1, 2011 by Dissent

On December 21, KCI (Kinetic Concepts, Inc.) Health Care Compliance notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office of a security breach involving fraud.  An employee in their Texas call center  with authorized access to a database containing customers’ payment card data had reportedly misused the information of “several” customers to make purchases in the San…

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Blue Cross Blue Shield Applications Found in Trash

Posted on December 31, 2010 by Dissent

Robert Siciliano writes: Private investigator William Cobra Staubs, was doing some dumpster diving conducting some “research” this week and happened upon a big box of discarded medical files and applications tossed there by what appears to be a Blue Cross Blue Shield agent who didn’t need them any longer. He found over 30 documents and…

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