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Privacy breaches in VA health records wound veterans

Posted on October 13, 2013 by Dissent

Carl Prine of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reports on an investigation they  conducted on privacy breaches involving veterans’ health records.  Some of their findings: …  VA workers or contractors committed 14,215 privacy violations at 167 facilities from 2010 through May 31, victimizing at least 101,018 veterans and 551 VA employees. Photos of the anatomy of some were posted…

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Sentara employees plead guilty to stealing patient information for tax refund fraud scheme

Posted on October 11, 2013 by Dissent

Scott Daugherty has an update on an insider breach involving two former Sentara Healthcare nurse’s aides.  It turns out that they accessed the information of 3,700 patients between September 2011 and April 2013. Most of the victims were patients at Sentara Virginia Beach General Hospital between September 2012 and February 2013. Sentara Healthcare’s chief privacy officer,…

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Hartford Can't Avoid Hospital Data Breach Coverage

Posted on October 9, 2013 by Dissent

Law360 reports that a California Judge ruled Hartford Casualty Insurance Co. cannot dodge coverage for two class actions seeking $20 million over a 2011 Stanford Hospital and Clinics breach. Subscription required to read their coverage. Previous coverage of the breach on this site can be found here and here.

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Rothman Institute offers free credit monitoring to patients after internal data breach

Posted on October 8, 2013 by Dissent

PressOfAtlanticCity.com reports: The Rothman Institute, which has locations throughout Atlantic and Cape May counties, released a letter regarding an internal breach of patient data that could have affected the privacy of some patients. The Philadelphia-based orthopedic institute said in a statement Monday they discovered a former employee had removed paper copies of daily patient schedules…

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Health information of 3,000 people may have been released in SLU security breach

Posted on October 7, 2013 by Dissent

KMOV reports: Saint Louis University officials say someone may have accessed protected health information of thousands of people after a possible security breach in early August. According to school officials, some SLU employees gave out their account information in response to a sophisticated phishing email scam they received on July 25. An investigation revealed someone…

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Region of Peel announces breach

Posted on October 7, 2013 by Dissent

Press statement by Emil Kolb, Chair of The Region of Peel, Regarding a Breach of Personal Health Information from a Public Health Program: Despite having practices and protocols in place to protect the privacy of our clients, we have had a breach of personal health information that affects more than 18,000 clients who participated in…

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