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Nurse Fired for Snooping in Tiger Woods' Records Files Defamation Suit

Posted on January 20, 2011 by Dissent

David Rothenberg was the charge nurse on duty at Health Central Hospital in Ocoee on Nov. 27, 2009, as paramedics wheeled in Tiger Woods. The golfer had just crashed his Cadillac Escalade into a tree and fire hydrant outside his Isleworth home. According to Rothenberg, within hours of Woods’s arrival, someone inside the hospital improperly…

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Vermont Attorney General Settles Security Breach Allegations Against Health Net

Posted on January 20, 2011 by Dissent

Attorney General William Sorrell filed a complaint and proposed settlement Friday with Health Net, Inc., and Health Net of the Northeast, Inc., regarding the health insurance company’s loss of an unencrypted portable hard drive containing protected health information. The complaint alleges violations of HIPAA (the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act), Vermont’s Security Breach Notice Act, and…

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(follow-up) Junior doctor's stolen laptop: files had been emailed

Posted on January 20, 2011 by Dissent

Following up on the Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital incident: Dan Raywood quotes a hospital spokesperson who indicates that the doctor had emailed the data to himself. It seems that while the hospital had controls in place to prevent downloading data, its controls to prevent emailing data were not adequate to prevent this…

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Ingenix discovers it may have been exposing health service providers’ SSNs for up to 5 years

Posted on January 19, 2011 by Dissent

This is one of those breaches where I really don’t blame the company, which in this case is Minnesota-based Ingenix. Ingenix provides web-based lookups so that patients can find providers in their area covered by their health plan.  The provider  data Ingenix uses is provided by the health plans or preferred provider plans themselves. Ingenix…

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Abbott Medical Optics reports backup tapes with Baylor patients' info stolen

Posted on January 19, 2011 by Dissent

Baylor College of Medicine Department of Ophthalmology has been notified by Abbott Medical Optics that certain backup tapes of information from equipment utilized by the department of Ophthalmology were taken from AMO’s Malpitas, California location. AMO representatives reported that they do not know who took the backup tapes or when they were taken. The information…

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(follow-up) Privacy czar orders Ottawa Hospital to tighten rules on personal information

Posted on January 19, 2011 by Dissent

Hugh Adami reports: The Ottawa Hospital has again been ordered by Ontario’s privacy commissioner to examine its rules and practices relating to personal health information, following another electronic breach of a patient’s medical records. Information and Privacy Commissioner Ann Cavoukian says in a report that the hospital failed to comply with certain elements of a…

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