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652 clients of Washington Department of Social and Health Services notified after contractor's laptop stolen

Posted on March 29, 2013 by Dissent

A contract psychologist for the Washington Department of Social and Health Services had his laptop stolen, the state disclosed today. Sunil Kakar, PsyD‘s laptop was  recovered from a pawn shop on February 14,  ten days after it was discovered it had been stolen, but according to the state, there is no way to be sure whether the…

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Documents containing personal information of patients left on Brooklyn sidewalk after medical supply company is shuttered

Posted on March 29, 2013 by Dissent

Todd Maisel, Kerry Burke, and Joe Kemp report: Stacks of paperwork containing personal information — including Social Security numbers — of patients were carelessly dumped on the sidewalk when a Brooklyn medical supply store was shuttered. The landlord said he was unaware of the papers’ sensitivity when he tossed the files outside Landmark Medical Supplies…

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NY: Medical file probe widens

Posted on March 29, 2013 by Dissent

Bob Gardinier reports: The number of Samaritan Hospital private medical records illegally accessed by Rensselaer County Jail personnel has more than doubled and the period of the probe widened from three to five years, hospital officials say. Read more on  Albany Times Union.

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St. Albert doctor suspended for privacy breach

Posted on March 28, 2013 by Dissent

Kevin Ma reports: An emergency room doctor from St. Albert has been suspended for at least a month because she illegally tapped into restricted medical files. The College of Physicians & Surgeons of Alberta announced this week that it had found Deanne “Dee” Gayle Watrich, an emergency room doctor and a St. Albert resident, to…

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Two HIPAA breaches involving Mid America Health that flew under the media radar

Posted on March 28, 2013 by Dissent

Back on January 3, I blogged about three breach reports I had stumbled across in December.  One of them involved an undated substitute notice from Mid America Health concerning a stolen laptop. I had e-mailed Mid America Health in December to ask when the breach had occurred and for more details, but they did not respond to my inquiry…

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Patient records found outside an evicted dental clinic in Detroit

Posted on March 27, 2013 by Dissent

Here we go again: After Kelly Plaza Dental Clinic in Detroit received an eviction notice shutting them down, someone cleaned out the premises.  Thrown in a dumpster were boxes with patients’ unshredded records that included Social Security numbers, credit card numbers, bank account information, and of course, dental records.  Read more on ClickOnDetroit.

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