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GA: Personal Info Stolen From Patients At DeKalb Medical

Posted on July 16, 2011 by Dissent

WSBTV reports: The United States Secret Service said it is investigating how the personal information of patients at the DeKalb Medical’s Hillandale facility was stolen. The data involves patients seen at the hospital between July and October 2010. The secret service said the case was similar to others in Georgia and Alabama. They said the…

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AU: DNA test names exposed online

Posted on July 16, 2011 by Dissent

Hedley Thomas reports: Australians seeking confidential DNA paternity tests to establish the parentage of their children have been outed online in a major privacy breach at Australia’s largest drug and alcohol testing company. Other sensitive data accidentally disclosed by the national company, Medvet, also compromise the privacy of hundreds of people who have confidentially ordered…

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N.H. medical board cites additional violations by doctor

Posted on July 15, 2011 by Dissent

Matthew Spolar reports: The State Board of Medicine added to its critical review of a Tilton doctor yesterday, announcing another $87,900 in fines for professional misconduct while she practiced at the Riverfront Medical Group. Dr. Susan Hare, already fined thousands of dollars and banned from practicing medicine for previous ethics issues, was cited for an…

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An unintended exposure leads to a mea culpa from an online psychiatry journal

Posted on July 15, 2011 by Dissent

When the editors of Psychiatric Times were alerted that they had inadvertently revealed some names and email addresses of those who responded to a survey on ethical dilemmas, they did the right thing.  In a letter dated June 10 on their web site, they wrote: Dear Readers, Not long ago, we posted a survey on…

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Hospital employee and three others accused of stealing patients' identities

Posted on July 15, 2011 by Dissent

Meredith Cohn reports: A federal grand jury has indicted four people, including a former employee of the University of Maryland Medical Center, in what prosecutors said was a scheme to steal patients’ identities. The 17-count indictment was unsealed Thursday after the arrests of Kenneth Elliott McDowell, 47; Wendy Hinton, 21; and William White, 54, all…

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Lawsuit alleges Tufts faxed patient records to workplace, without permission

Posted on July 14, 2011 by Dissent

Chelsea Conaboy reports on an alleged breach that reminds us that everyone’s privacy counts, and every breach – even a simple mistake – can have devastating consequences for the patient: A patient of Tufts Medical Center has filed a case against the hospital and a primary care doctor there alleging that documents including her medical…

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