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Health Net Settlement Leaves Physicians Unsettled

Posted on July 31, 2010 by Dissent

Cathryn J. Prince reports: Insurance giant Health Net’s historic settlement over a security breach leaves some area physicians unsettled. Attorney General Richard Blumenthal announced a settlement with Health Net and its affiliates for failing to secure private patient medical records and financial information on nearly 500,000 Connecticut patients. However, the settlement doesn’t address the breach…

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Lawyer: Patients notified about misplaced records

Posted on July 31, 2010 by Dissent

Amanda Chan reports the follow-up to an incident previously covered on PHIprivacy.net: The Charlotte psychologist whose patient records were discovered at a county recycling facility last month contacted 1,590 of his patients via letter to inform them of the incident on Friday, his lawyer said. Ervin Batchelor, owner of Carolina Center for Development and Rehabilitation,…

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Recruiter in Cheesecake Factory Card-Skimming Case Pleads Guilty

Posted on July 30, 2010 by Dissent

Note: this is a follow-up to a case previously covered on this site. Nicole Lakesha Ward, 28, of Washington D.C., pled guilty today to conspiring to commit bank fraud relating to a card-skimming scheme that targeted customers of The Cheesecake Factory in Washington, D.C. Ward faces a maximum penalty of 30 years in prison when…

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NY: Medical and doctors’ records scattered all over North Tonawanda

Posted on July 30, 2010 by Dissent

Dear Congress: Please view the TV coverage below and then tell me again why none of you have the determination and will to write and enact a bill that requires protection of paper records containing sensitive information and that requires notification in the event of a breach. George Richert reports: Confidential medical records were scattered…

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Texas Children’s Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine Report Stolen Laptop

Posted on July 30, 2010 by Dissent

From the Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital‘s web sites: On May 13, 2010, a physician from Baylor College of Medicine and affiliated with Texas Children’s Hospital had his password-protected laptop stolen from an office at Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston, Texas. Electronic files on the laptop contained demographic and clinical information of…

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A costly layover: laptop with over 32,000 SSN lost

Posted on July 30, 2010 by Dissent

Through its lawyers, Indianapolis-based First Advantage Tax Consulting Services (TCS) has notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office that on June 10, a laptop containing sensitive personal information was lost during an airport layover. The documents on the laptop included information provided by employers who were receiving TCS’s professional services in determining their eligibility for…

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