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Ca: Medical records found in vacant office

Posted on August 19, 2010 by Dissent

Laura Tester reports on yet another breach involving paper records, this one in Canada: A Red Deer physician violated a provincial law after 10 large boxes of patient records were left behind during an office move, says a report released by the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner on Wednesday. Provincial investigator Brian Hamilton…

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Stolen Yale laptop has health info of 1,000 people

Posted on August 18, 2010 by Dissent

Yale School of Medicine today began notifying approximately 1,000 people whose clinical health information was contained on a laptop computer that was stolen last month. There is no indication that any individual information on the computer has been misused, officials said. Yale and New Haven police departments have been working together and will continue to…

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UK: Medical notes lost in car park

Posted on August 18, 2010 by Dissent

Confidential patient medical records and a blank prescription pad have been found strewn across a Dudley clinic’s car park. The shocking lapse in security over patients’ intimate medical details could land The Central Clinic, Hall Street, in trouble as the blunder breaks several data protection laws and regulations. […] Dr Paul Brian Varney Brettell, whose…

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Other new HHS revelations on breaches

Posted on August 18, 2010 by Dissent

An update to HHS’s web site this morning includes some recent breaches we already knew about from other sources,  but it but also includes a few breaches we didn’t know about or additional information on other breaches. In addition to the Wright State Physicians incident, reported in another post: Beauty Dental, Inc. in Illinois reported…

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Trashed laptop contained patient information

Posted on August 18, 2010 by Dissent

Be careful where you put your laptop. An Ohio group learned that lesson the hard way after a laptop left next to a waste can was thrown out by cleaning personnel who assumed it was meant for trash. The laptop contained information on 1,309 patients. In a notice on their web site, Wright State Physicians…

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Data Security Breach Bill Calls for Strict Notification

Posted on August 17, 2010 by Dissent

Dom Nicastro writes: A data breach bill filed August 5 requires entities that hold consumers’ sensitive information to create a robust data compliance protection plan and holds them to strict breach notification requirements. U.S. Senators Mark Pryor (D-AR) and Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) filed the “Data Security and Breach Notification Act of 2010,” which would be…

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