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Audit cites UIHC for lacking encryption

Posted on January 29, 2013 by Dissent

Tara Bannow reports: About half of the more than 500 laptops issued to University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics employees last summer did not have encryption software to protect sensitive information, a deputy state auditor said Monday. A state of Iowa auditor’s office report released Monday described how the lack of encryption software on some…

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There ought to be a law

Posted on January 28, 2013 by Dissent

On Data Privacy Day 2013, here’s  a reminder that we have a looooong way to go. KRQE in New Mexico reports:  Hundreds of personal documents from dozens of people were all found in a very public place, but how did they get there and who’s at risk? The court files were found in a Bernalillo…

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Your medical records are in a dumpster in another state. Now what?

Posted on January 25, 2013 by Dissent

Melissa Payne reports that a man in the Shoals (Alabama) found thousands of medical files from a doctor’s office in Virginia in dumpsters around town. How they wound up in Florence, Alabama is anyone’s guess at this point. “It’s concerning because there are phone numbers, birth dates, addresses, social security numbers in these files,” said…

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Office intern at Jacksonville primary care center charged with ID theft

Posted on January 24, 2013 by Dissent

Here we go again: a cellphone being used to steal patient info. Dana Treen reports: Names and Social Security numbers of 261 people were illegally photographed at a Shands Jacksonville clinic then transmitted to another person, according to an arrest report in the case. Daremia Nikeka Crews, 24, of the 5300 block of Saginaw Avenue…

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Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford notifying 57,000 patients after laptop stolen from physician's car

Posted on January 22, 2013 by Dissent

From their press release, issued yesterday: Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford and the Stanford University School of Medicine are notifying patients by mail that a password-protected laptop computer containing limited medical information on pediatric patients was stolen from a physician’s car away from campus on the night of January 9, 2013. This incident was…

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Former patient claims confidentiality breach in Prime Healthcare lawsuit

Posted on January 20, 2013 by Dissent

When the CEO of Prime Healthcare and Shasta Regional Medical Center disclosed patient records in trying to defend themselves against a media report, I immediately noted that without the patient’s consent, they could not do that.  Despite what was so obvious to most of us, they defended their disclosure, claiming that the patient had waived…

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