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UK: Details of 'care-in-the-home' patients found in car park

Posted on October 6, 2011 by Dissent

Chris Caulfield reports: Personal details of 50 home care patients, including keycode access to many of their doors, were left lying in a school car park before being found and handed in to the Herald & News. Among the patients was a Member of the British Empire while all those on the list lived in…

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Patient Data Landed Online After a Series of Missteps

Posted on October 5, 2011 by Dissent

The Stanford Hospital breach is a useful reminder of why you shouldn’t use real data sets for testing.  Kevin Sack of the New York Times reports: Private medical data for nearly 20,000 emergency room patients at California’s prestigious Stanford Hospital were exposed to public view for nearly a year because a billing contractor’s marketing agent…

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Patient Data Landed Online After a Series of Missteps

Posted on October 5, 2011 by Dissent

The Stanford Hospital breach is a useful reminder of why you shouldn’t use real data sets for testing.  Kevin Sack of the New York Times reports: Private medical data for nearly 20,000 emergency room patients at California’s prestigious Stanford Hospital were exposed to public view for nearly a year because a billing contractor’s marketing agent sent the…

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UK: Stolen laptops contained some health information

Posted on October 5, 2011 by Dissent

Many entities that are not primarily healthcare entities collect and store health information.  Sadly, all too many of them do not adequately protect such data.  From the Information Commissioner’s Office today: Two organisations have taken action after they breached the Data Protection Act by failing to encrypt personal information on laptops that were later stolen,…

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Brooke Mueller sues rehab clinic; alleges employee sent info to media

Posted on October 4, 2011 by Dissent

She had indicated her intention to sue back in February 2010, and I’m somewhat surprised it took so long, but now Brooke Mueller has filed a lawsuit against The Canyon rehab facility for privacy violations. TMZ reports that the lawsuit alleges the facility sold her confidential information to the media:   TMZ broke the story after the…

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UK: 10,000 archived records destroyed in hospital data blunder, diaries stolen from nurse's car

Posted on October 4, 2011 by Dissent

Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust breached the Data Protection Act by accidentally destroying 10,000 archived records, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said today. The records – which should have been kept in a dedicated storage area – were put in a disposal room due to lack of space. The records were then mistakenly removed from…

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