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Ca: Statement on privacy breach at Capital Health

Posted on February 14, 2012 by Dissent

Statement from Capital Health: This week Capital Health is contacting 105 people whose personal health information was inappropriately accessed by a former employee. Everyone who is affected will hear directly from Capital Health and we will be available to discuss the details of these breaches of confidentiality with them. Capital Health identified these breaches during…

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De: Drug data firm 'sold raw info' to big pharma

Posted on February 13, 2012 by Dissent

A German company which studies drug prescription habits for the pharma industry is accused of selling raw data to drug companies, in what magazine Der Spiegel said on Monday could be a huge data protection scandal. A former member of staff at the data processing firm Pharmafakt GFD told the magazine under oath that data…

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UK: Health trust ‘loses’ children’s records

Posted on February 12, 2012 by Dissent

Sensitive information about young children has been lost, prompting a “serious incident investigation” by health officials. Parents of pupils at the city’s Paston Ridings Primary School have been horrified to discover that Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust has lost the personal information of 47 children in the reception class. The trust runs the school…

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WI: Computer stolen from western Wis. medical center

Posted on February 10, 2012 by Dissent

This is one of those breach reports that stumps me every time. Keith Edwards reports for WQOW:  Hundreds of western Wisconsin patients are warned their medical and personal information may have been compromised. The Lakeview Medical Center in Rice Lake says a laptop computer was stolen from a car belonging to one of its nurses….

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UK: Five councils, a youth charity, and a healthcare provider sign undertakings following data breaches

Posted on February 10, 2012 by Dissent

Five councils breached the Data Protection Act by failing to keep people’s personal information secure, Information Commissioner, Christopher Graham, said today: Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council breached the Data Protection Act on four separate occasions during a two month period last year. The breaches included an incident in May when an individual was mistakenly sent…

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A glimpse inside the $234 billion world of medical ID theft

Posted on February 9, 2012 by Dissent

Rick Kam, President and CEO, ID Experts and Christine Arevalo, director of healthcare identity management, ID Experts write: Healthcare fraud is costing American taxpayers up to $234 billion annually, based on estimates from the FBI. It’s no wonder that a stolen medical identity has a $50 street value, according to the World Privacy Forum –…

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