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LabCorp computer with PHI stolen

Posted on June 9, 2013 by Dissent

LabCorp (Laboratory Corporation of America) has suffered yet another breach involving patient data. On April 19, the firm notified the Maryland Attorney General’s Office that a computer tagged for destruction had been stolen from one of its facilities in North Carolina. The computer contained patient names, date of birth, and Medicare subscriber numbers. LabCorp’s notification…

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States’ Hospital Data for Sale Puts Privacy in Jeopardy

Posted on June 9, 2013 by Dissent

There was some great reporting by Jordan Robertson of Bloomberg while I was away: Hospitals in the U.S. pledge to keep a patient’s health background confidential. Yet states from Washington to New York are putting privacy at risk by selling records that can be used to link a person’s identity to medical conditions using public information. Consider Ray Boylston,…

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Ignorance + faulty assumptions + trust = breach

Posted on June 9, 2013 by Dissent

Apparently there are still clinicians out there who never heard of encryption and whose patient or client data may wind up on re-sold hard drives, as this social worker discovered the hard way.  This breach doesn’t speak well for Other World Computing, either. Thankfully, the drive with PHI was acquired by someone who understood the…

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Ca: Patients’ medical info left on City bus

Posted on June 9, 2013 by Dissent

Michele Young reports: His 80-year-old mother’s medical records were left on a City bus and Darrel Davy isn’t satisfied with Interior Health’s explanation. Davy said Thursday his mother was admitted to Royal Inland Hospital on May 23 and released three days later. She’s feeling better, but he’s been upset since she got a registered letter…

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Moore Medical Center Records Safe Despite Tornado Damage

Posted on June 9, 2013 by Dissent

Several weeks ago, I blogged that I hoped Moore Medical Center in Oklahoma had its patient records backed up off-site.  I was happy to read this week that they did. Clearly, patient care and availability of records is critical. But I wouldn’t go as far as Jeff Drummond did and declare that they “didn’t lose…

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VA Systems Hacked From Abroad

Posted on June 9, 2013 by Dissent

Eric Chabrow reports: Since 2010, hackers from other nations, including China and perhaps Russia, have repeatedly breached Department of Veterans Affairs computers containing unencrypted data on some 20 million veterans, the chairman of a House panel said at a June 4 hearing. In at least one incident, hackers encrypted the unencrypted VA data, making it impossible for…

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