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August VA report reveals no smoking guns

Posted on September 16, 2010 by Dissent

The Department of Veterans Affairs has posted its Monthly Report to Congress on Data Incidents for August 2010.   As in the past, there are a number of mis-mailed prescriptions or incidents involving one patient being sent another patient’s medication.   Most incidents during this period were of low to moderate risk to patients, and…

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The NHS IT worker who snooped on hundreds of patients' records

Posted on September 16, 2010 by Dissent

AN IT manager for the NHS in Yorkshire has been warned he faces jail after admitting illegally spying on medical records of patients. Dale Trever, 22, was working for a primary care trust as a data quality manager when he accessed patient records – all for women and mostly for his family, friends and colleagues….

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Cardinal Health notifies employees and applicants of missing laptop

Posted on September 16, 2010 by Dissent

When a good samaritan contacted Ohio-based Cardinal Health in mid-June to tell them that a used laptop purchased on eBay contained company information, Cardinal Health recovered the laptop and began to investigate. Under their policies, data on decommissioned computers are to be securely deleted by their IT department and then securely destroyed by a vendor….

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More on the Connecticut Insurance Department Bulletin on Breach Notification

Posted on September 14, 2010 by Dissent

Tanya Forsheit provides an analysis and commentary on the new breach notification requirements from the Connecticut Insurance Commission that I’ve mentioned on this blog previously (here and here).  You can read her analysis on InformationLawGroup.

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Attorney outed during a TB scare back in court

Posted on September 14, 2010 by Dissent

Greg Bluestein of  Associated Press reports that Andrew Speaker’s attorneys were back in court trying to revive his lawsuit against the CDC for outing him in 2007.  Speaker became famous or infamous as the man who was supposedly told he had a very virulent (and contagious) form of tuberculosis but then took a commercial air…

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Pittsburgh settles lawsuit over exposing confidential medical info

Posted on September 14, 2010 by Dissent

Joe Smydo of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports that one of two federal lawsuits recently settled by the Pittsburgh City Council involved a breach of confidential medical information both in a public meeting and online. Although this is a settlement and not a court or jury decision, what’s interesting is that the basis for claim was…

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